Christ the best husband

5. If you are espoused unto Christ, you have acquaintance and converse with Christ, and you like his company best, and you highly value, and diligently attend upon all those Ordinances which are the means of bringing you and Christ together; and this is the great thing which you desire and seek after in Hearing and Prayer, and at the Table of the Lord, that you may have a sight of your Beloved, and a taste of his Love, and more intimate communion with Him. And is acquaintance begun with Christ, and farther intimacy desired ⟨p. 14⟩by you? Are pure and powerful Ordinances of great esteem with you? Do you give all diligence to wait upon, and for your Beloved in them?

5. If you are espoused unto Christ, you have acquaintance and converse with Christ, and you like his company best, and you highly value, and diligently attend upon all those Ordinances which are the means of bringing you and Christ together; and this is the great thing which you desire and seek after in Hearing and Prayer, and at the Table of the Lord, that you may have a sight of your Beloved, and a taste of his Love, and more intimate communion with Him. And is acquaintance begun with Christ, and farther intimacy defired ⟨p. 14⟩by you? Are pure and powerful Ordinances of great esteem with you? Do you give all diligence to wait upon, and for your Beloved in them?

6. If you are espoused unto Christ, then you endeavour to promote his interest, and advance his name in the world; then when others seek their own things, you seek the things of Jesus Christ, and look upon them as your own; when others labour chiefly to lift up themselves in the esteem of men, you labour above ill to lift up Christ in mens esteem; you are commending your beloved above all others beloved, and endeavour to bring others in love with him, and into the same relation with your selves unto him. Can you show such evidences as these of your espousals unto Christ? And if beyond these, you have love-tokens to show which you have received from Christ; if he have given you Soul-refreshing visits, heart ravishing similes, gracious returns to your Prayers, the white stone, a sight of your name written in his book, the hidden manna, the fruit of the tree of life, a glimpse of glory, an earnest of your inheritance, a fore-taste of Heaven, un-utterable peace of conscience; a heart enlarged with love to Him, and filled sometimes with the joys of the Holy Ghost; such love-tokens as these may put it quite out of question whether you are espoused unto Christ, when all these are the tokens of his conjugal, especial, and most endeared Love.