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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.
Beloved, it is all one, for know that this word and miracle went then together, the word is as ancient as the miracle, therefore you must make the same use of them now, as you would have done then; indeed if the word were now delivered, and the miracle wrought long ago, it were another case, but when he that said the word, at the same time confirmed it with these miracles, this may work belief.
Beloved, it is all one, for know that this word and miracle went then together, the word is as ancient as the miracle, therefore you must make the same use of them now, as you would have done then; indeed if the word were now delivered, and the miracle wrought long agoe, it were another case, but when he that sayd the word, at the same time confirmed it with these miracles, this may worke beleefe.
You will say, this miracle confirms it in general, if the Lord should speak personally to me, and say, I will be thy Husband, this were to purpose.
You will say, this miracle confirmes it in generall, if the Lord should speak personally to me, and say, I will be thy Husband, this were to purpose.
Beloved, consider, it is all one, because you have this general, He bids the Gospel be preached to every Creature; therefore, thou art sure thou art in that number: consider that the word of promise also, which word you all know, that Whosoever believes shall be saved, that is, whosoever will take his pardon 1shall be saved, and nothing keeps men from salvation, but the refusing it; therefore say not, he that commits such and such sins, shall be damned, but he that takes not the pardon shall be damned: Beloved, this is a matter of great consolation, this is that that is our Freehold, we have a sure word, and this is the Gospel that we have to preach, that whatsoever the rebels be, and whatsoever the sins are, yet they may come in, and be received.