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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. Christs invitations of you to be his Spouse, are General; All of you are invited, and none of you excepted; none are excluded, but such of you as exclude your selves; all sorts of persons are invited, not only such who are of the highest quality, of whom very few do hearken; but also those who are of the meanest degree in the world: the poor, and the blind, and the lame, and the most despicable in the eyes of men as they are invited unto the marriage Supper Luk. 14. 21. so upon their coming they are received into the marriage relation unto Christ. All sorts of sinners are invited, not only those who have kept their garments from grosser spots, and escaped the greater pollutions which are in the world through Lust; but also the most vile and abominable sinners, such who have run with others unto the same excess of riot, and wallowed like swine in the deepest mire of sin, the most notorious transgressors are invited to be Christs Spouse, and shall be as welcome as any unto the embracements of his Love.
2. Christs invitations of you to be his Spouse, are General; All of you are invited, and none of you excepted; none are excluded, but such of you as exclude your selves; all sorts of persons are invited, not only such who are of the highest quality, of whom very few do hearken; but also those who are of the meanest degree in the world: the poor, and the blind, and the lame, and the most despicable in the eyes of men as they are invited unto the marriage Supper Luk. 14. 21. so upon their coming they are received into the marriage relation unto Christ. All sorts of sinners are invited, not only those who have kept their garments from grosser spots, and escaped the greater pollutions which are in the world through Lust; but also the most vile and abominable sinners, such who have run with others unto the same excess of riot, and wallowed like swine in the deepest mire of sin, the most notorious transgressours are invited to be Christs Spouse, and shall be as welcome as any unto the embracements of his Love.