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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.
2. This is your glory, you that are espoused unto Jesus Christ, are advanced unto great dignity and honour; you are of all others in the world most highly preferred: It is the dignity of Christ to be so near to the Father, and it is your dignity to be so near unto Christ: It is Christs honour beyond every creature, that he is joined in the hypostatical union unto the Father, and it is your honour that you are joined in this mystical and conjugal union and relation unto the eternal Son of God. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the mighty man glory in his strength, nor the wealthy man glory in his riches; but you may glory in the Lord, that you are espoused unto Christ; glory not in your selves, but in the Lord, who hath most freely and graciously taken you into this relation.
2. This is your glory, you that are espoused unto Jesus Christ, are advanced unto great dignity and honour; you are of all others in the world most highly preferred: It is the dignity of Christ to be so near to the Father, and it is your dignity to be so near unto Christ: It is Christs honour beyond every creature, that he is joyned in the hypostatical union unto the Father, and it is your honour that you are joyned in this mystical and conjugal union and relation unto the eternal Son of God. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome, nor the mighty man glory in his strength, nor the wealthy man glory in his riches; but you may glory in the Lord, that you are espoused unto Christ; glory not in your selves, but in the Lord, who hath most freely and graciously taken you into this relation.
3. This is your safety: If you are espoused unto ⟨p. 17⟩Christ, you are under the wing of his especial protection continually, he is by this relation unto you, engaged to protect and defend you, and that from Sin and Satan, and eternal ruin, and so long you are safe; yea, he hath a special regard for you in times of danger from men, he hath secret chambers of his providence to hide you in when there are great storms and tempests of trouble about you, and if such times should overtake you, which are not very unlikely, either he will preserve you from common desolation, or by it lodge you with himself out of the reach of all future trouble.