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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.
The leading Sermon to that Treatise of his called The Churches Marriage.
CANT. 63.
I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine.
LONDON, Printed for Francis Eaglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marigold in S. Pauls Church-yard. 1648.
To the Christian Reader.
When the Sermons of this reverend Divine entitled the Churches Marriage, were first published, this Sermon was not come to the hands of those who were instrumental in setting forth the work: who yet were willing rather to send it so abroad, then that so many excellent truths should be lost. This Sermon since, coming to my hands, taken by a skilful scribe from the Authors mouth, I thought fit to add it to the rest, lest the work should seem a body without a head. My pains is saved for speaking any thing concerning the worthy Author, or his Works, it is sufficiently done by those reverend Divines that have been the publishers of them, therefore commending this to thee, and thy self to Gods blessing, I rest