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Christ the best husband
Christ the best husband: or An invitation of young women unto Christ Delivered in a sermon to young women. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.
London: printed for George Calvert and Samuel Sprint, 1672
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.
3. That such who would be espoused unto Jesus Christ, must hearken, consider, and incline to his invitation, and forget their people and fathers house.
1. Such as would be espoused unto Christ, must Hearken; Hearken, O Daughter. Some, yea most of the children of men, shut their eyes as fast as they can against the light of the Word, and they shut their ears as fast as they can against the calls of the Word, like the deaf Adder, which will not hearken to the voice of the Charmer, charms he never so wisely; so they will not hearken to the invitations of Christ by his Ministers, let them invite never so pathetically; It was by the ear that the temptation to sin was received at first by man, when he departed from God, and by the ear the invitation to be Christ's Spouse is first received, whereby any are restored unto Gods favour: the ear must be first opened to receive Christs invitation, before the heart will be opened to receive Jesus Christ in this conjugal relation, Isa. 55. 3. Hear, and thy soul shall live.
1. Such as would be espoused unto Christ, must Hearken; Hearken, O Daughter. Some, yea most of the children of men, shut their eyes as fast as they can against the light of the Word, and they shut their ears as fast as they can against the calls of the Word, like the deaf Adder, which will not hearken to the voice of the Charmer, charmes he never so wisely; so they will not hearken to the invitations of Christ by his Ministers, let them invite never so pathetically; It was by the ear that the temptation to sin was received at first by man, when he departed from God, and by the ear the invitation to be Christ's Spouse is first received, whereby any are restored unto Gods favour: the ear must be first opened to receive Christs invitation, before the heart will be opened to receive Jesus Christ in this conjugal relation, Isa. 55. 3. Hear, and thy soul shall live.