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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. 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.
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 Sathan, and eternal ruine, 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.
4. This may comfort you at all times, and in all conditions, that you are so nearly related unto Christ, that he loveth you when the world hateth you, that he careth for you, and hath promised to provide for you what is needful here, and at length will receive you to the mansions he hath prepared in his Fathers house, where you shall see, and share in his glory, and take up your habitation for ever with him.