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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.
CHRIST THE BEST HUSBAND:
Psal. 45. 10, 11. Hearken, (O daughter) and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy fathers house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.
This Psalm is called a Song of Loves, the most high, pure and spiritual, the most dear, sweet, and delightful Loves; namely, those which are between Christ, the Beloved, and his Church, which is his Spouse: wherein is set forth, first, the Lord Jesus Christ, in regard of his Majesty, Power, and Divinity, His truth, meekness and equity; and then the Spouse is set forth in regard of her ornaments, companions, attendants, and posterity; and both are set forth in regard of their loveliness and Beauty. After a Description is given of Christ, an invitation is made unto his Espousals, and that of the children of men, called by the name of Daughter; and therefore ⟨p. 2⟩particularly applicably unto the Daughters o men; yet not so as excluding the sons of men any more than when God speaketh unto the sons of men, he doth exclude the daughters; and with reference chiefly unto the Daughters I shall now speak unto the words; and from hence observe this Doctrine, as comprehensive of the words as I can make it.
THis Psalm is called a Song of Loves, the most high, pure and spiritual, the most dear, sweet, and delightful Loves; namely, those which are between Christ, the Beloved, and his Church, which is his Spouse: wherein is set forth, first, the Lord Jesus Christ, in regard of his Majesty, Power, and Divinity, His truth, meekness and equity; and then the Spouse is set forth in regard of her ornaments, companions, attendants, and posterity; and both are set forth in regard of their loveliness and Beauty. After a Description is given of Christ, an invitation is made unto his Espousals, and that of the children of men, called by the name of Daughter; and therefore