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The mystical match between Christ and his churchThe mysticall match between Christ and his church
The mystical match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.The mysticall match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.
London: printed for Francis Eaglesfield, 1648
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, God is exceeding munificent, his goodness is great. If one hath a father that is 1full of goodness, an ingenuous son would not disobey him, because he would not grieve him; now God will spare thee, as a father spares his son that serves him: he will keep thee still in the house, notwithstanding all thy rebellions.
Thirdly, God is exceeding munificent, his goodnesse is great. If one hath a father that is 1full of goodnesse, an ingenuous sonne would not disobey him, because hee would not grieve him; now God will spare thee, as a father spares his sonne that serves him: hee will keepe thee still in the house, notwithstanding all thy rebellions.
- 13 His munificence.
Last motive is taken from our selves. It is for thy good to be subject to him: which if men 1throughly apprehend, they would not stick, though it were a thing burdensome to them. If a Physician prescribes thee an hard diet, to which thou hast no good will in it self; yet if thou be told it is for thy good, then thou art willing; and thus it is with the Commandments. But say, is not liberty an excellent thing? is it not better to live as a man lists? Indeed if the mind of a man were framed as it ought to be, it were so; but seeing thy heart is possessed with errors, &c. it is not best for thee to be at liberty, for one that is well in his wits, it is good to be at liberty, but not for one in a frenzy; again, for thee to follow thine own will, is to subject thy self more to the disease, but when thou dost what God commands thee, thou dost follow the prescript of the Physician. For every man lies as it were Inter morbum & medicum; if thou subject thy self to God, thou growest out of bondage ⟨p. 88⟩