Christ the best husband

If you are espoused unto Christ, then

1. You are disjoined from sin; Is the cursed league broken, which is naturally between sin and your hearts? Before you come to be espoused unto Christ, you are as it were espoused and married to sin; sin is your Husband, and you are tied in its bonds; sin doth inhabit with you, and dwell in the embracements of your dearest love and delight; you care for the things of sin, how you may please your flesh, and gratify your inordinate desires; and whilst this husband and beloved of your hearts liveth, you are not at liberty to be espoused and married unto Jesus Christ; and sin liveth in the affections, whilst it doth possess the ⟨p. 12⟩most prevailing liking affections; and so long you are knit and linked unto sin: examine whether sin hath yet received it's deaths wound in your hearts; whether ever the false mask of sin hath been plucked off, and the odiousness of it hath been made manifest unto you; whether your hearts have been brought to a loathing and detestation of it; and so sin killed in your affections, and the knot unloosed which hath tied your hearts unto it? Do you indeed hate sin with the greatest and most implacable hatred? Is sin mortified and subdued as to its reigning power? if sin be dead, you are at liberty to be espoused, and it is a good evidence that you are espoused unto Jesus Christ.

1. You are disjoyned from sin; Is the cursed league broken, which is naturally between sin and your hearts? Before you come to be espoused unto Christ, you are as it were espoused and married to sin; sin is your Husband, and you are tied in its bonds; sin doth inhabit with you, and dwell in the embracements of your dearest love and delight; you care for the things of sin, how you may please your flesh, and gratifie your inordinate desires; and whilst this husband and beloved of your hearts liveth, you are not at liberty to be espoused and married unto Jesus Christ; and sin liveth in the affections, whilst it doth possess the ⟨p. 12⟩