Christ the best husband

2. This is your great folly as well as sin, to refuse and neglect the gracious proffers of being made the Spouse of Christ; hereby you forfeit all that especial Love of his which you might have, with all the endeared expressions thereof: by this refusal and neglect you choose rags before robes, dross before gold; pebbles before jewels; guilt before a pardon; wounds before healing; defilement before cleansing; deformity before comeliness; trouble before peace; slavery before liberty; the service of the Devil before the service of Christ; hereby you choose dishonour before a crown; death before life; Hell before Heaven; eternal pain and ⟨p. 16⟩misery before everlasting joy and glory. And need there a farther evidence of your folly and madness, in refusing and neglecting of Christs invitation to be his Spouse?

2. This is your great folly as well as sin, to refuse and neglect the gracious proffers of being made the Spouse of Christ; hereby you forfeit all that especial Love of his which you might have, with all the endeared expressions thereof: by this refusal and neglect you chuse raggs before robes, dross before gold; pebbles before jewels; guilt before a pardon; wounds before healing; defilement before cleansing; deformity before comeliness; trouble before peace; slavery before liberty; the service of the Devil before the service of Christ; hereby you chuse dishonour before a crown; death before life; Hell before Heaven; eternal pain and ⟨p. 16⟩misery before everlasting joy and glory. And need there a farther evidence of your folly and madness, in refusing and neglecting of Christs invitation to be his Spouse?

Use 3. For comfort of all those that have hearkened, considered, and are inclined and persuaded to be the Spouse of Jesus Christ.

Use 3. For comfort of all those that have hearkned, considered, and are inclined and perswaded to be the Spouse of Jesus Christ.