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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
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An objection may be made, which I will an 1swer, and so proceed: which is concerning these motives I have given, & that is, whether we may use such to our hearts, to move us to take Christ, as to consider the privileges and liberty we shall have with him; for will some say, we are bound to match with Christ merely out of love to his person: how shall these be used as motives then?
An objection may bee made, which I will an 1swer, and so proceede: which is concerning these motives I have given, & that is, whether we may use such to our hearts, to move us to take Christ, as to consider the priviledges and liberty we shall have with him; for wil some say, we are bound to match with Christ meerely out of love to his person: how shall these bee used as motives then?
- 1Object. The consideration of the benefits by Christ, serve.
These motives serve notwithstanding to two 1ends.
- 1Ans.
First they are a good introduction to lead us to 1the match: for when we make a tender of Christ, men will not hearken to us; as many a woman will not hear of such a suitor; but when she is told, that he hath such an estate, that he will bring her to such an house, thus and thus furnished, that she shall have these and these commodities by him, it may be that will win her thus far as now to see him, she is content now that he should come, and be a suitor, she is content to confer with him; so I say, this is that that brings every man first to look after Christ Jesus, to admit him as it were, to be content to see his person, to give him leave to confer with them; therefore that is one use to be made of them.