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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.
These conditions observed, you shall have the use of this privilege.
These conditions observed, you shall have the use of this priviledge.
Another use is this, let every man learn from hence to be the glory of Christ. How is this drawn 1from thence, you will say▪ If you look into that place in the 1 Corin. 11. 7. See how it follows upon it: Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the woman's head, as is before in the Chapter, what follows upon that? in the seventh verse, he says, the man is the image and glory of God, and the woman is the glory of the ⟨p. 134⟩man. The meaning is this, when thou dost consider that the Lord is thy husband, and thy head, thou must think of this with thy self, and every time thou findst that passage in Scripture, it should put thee in mind to carry thy self so as thou mayst be the glory of the Lord, that is, thou must take heed of standing on thine own bottom, and seeking glory to thy self, and of shining with thine own beams, seeking any self-excellency; but as it is in the civill law, Mulier coruscat radiis mariti, the woman must shine with the beams of the man, that is, she must challenge nothing as her own, but every thing she seeks or stands for, it is in the name of her husband, therefore whatever thou hast been, or ever thou hast sought honour to thy self, and applause, and to be thought some body in the world, yet now think thus with thy self, I am the Lords now, I must give him all the praise, and carry my self so, that all my excellency may reflect upon him. And this also, that we are members, is also argument enough for it. What can the members do? there is agility in them to do many actions, but where have they all their vigour? is it not from the head? So all the wit, and learning thou hast, those excellencies thou hast, whence hast thou them? are they not from Christ? the members do that they do, but in an instrumental manner, so dost thou, what ever thou dost. Therefore consider this, and say heartily, it is not I that do this or that, but the grace of God in me, I do but actus agere, it is the influence of my head; Christ hath wrought it by