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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.
If a man have his heart glued to any sin, he is not a member of Christ, be it a matter of credit, learning, pleasure, or delight, any lust, if thy heart be glued to it, and thou canst ⟨p. 139⟩not get them asunder, thou art not a member of Christ. For they are not wedded to any sin, but there is a divorce between every member of Christ and sin, though they may fall one upon another, and touch each, yet they are of a mouldering nature, they will not cleave together. For he that is of God is in Christ, and hath the nature of Christ in him, that will not suffer him to sin. As take water and oil, they may violently be shaken together, and they will seem to be mixed together, and to be one, but they will not continue so long, there is no coalition, because they are of divers natures; and the one remains water still, and the other oil: so he that is in Christ cannot cleave to any sin, though sin and he may touch sometime, yet they are strangers, they cannot stand together, they cannot cleave one to another.
If a man have his heart glued to any sinne, he is not a member of Christ, be it a matter of credit, learning, pleasure, or delight, any lust, if thy heart be glued to it, and thou canst ⟨p. 139⟩not get them asunder, thou art not a member of Christ. For they are not wedded to any sin, but there is a divorce between every member of Christ and sinne, though they may fall one upon another, and touch each, yet they are of a mouldering nature, they will not cleave together. For he that is of God is in Christ, and hath the nature of Christ in him, that will not suffer him to sin. As take water and oyle, they may violently be shaken together, and they will seeme to be mixed together, and to be one, but they will not continue so long, there is no coalition, because they are of divers natures; and the one remaines water still, and the other oyle: so he that is in Christ cannot cleave to any sinne, though sin and he may touch sometime, yet they are strangers, they cannot stand together, they cannot cleave one to another.