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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.
5. Christs invitations of you to be his Spouse, are Free; He doth not expect a portion and dowry ⟨p. 26⟩with you, as many, yea, most great persons do in their applications to any upon this account, they expect something answerable to their degree and estate; but none have any thing answerable unto Christs degree, neither doth he expect any thing, he hath enough for you and him too; and you must have nothing, if you would be espoused unto him; you must be poor, and naked, and empty, and he will enrich, and clothe, and fill, and supply you out of his treasury, with all things needful to qualify you and make you meet for himself.
5. Christs invitations of you to be his Spouse, are Free; He doth not expect a portion and dowry ⟨p. 26⟩with you, as many, yea, most great persons do in their applications to any upon this account, they expect something answerable to their degree and estate; but none have any thing answerable unto Christs degree, neither doth he expect any thing, he hath enough for you and him too; and you must have nothing, if you would be espoused unto him; you must be poor, and naked, and empty, and he will enrich, and clotha, and fill, and supply you out of his treasury, with all things needful to qualifie you and make you meet for himself.
3. Consider if you be once espoused unto Christ, you shall never be divorced, if once joined in this relation unto him, you shall never be separated from him; neither Men nor Devils shall be able to disjoin you, and when Death doth break all other conjugal bonds, it shall not break the conjugal bonds between you and Christ, but bring you unto the most full and everlasting possession of your beloved.
3. Consider if you be once espoused unto Christ, you shall never be divorced, if once joyned in this relation unto him, you shall never be separated from him; neither Men nor Devils shall be able to disjoyn you, and when Death doth break all other conjugal bonds, it shall not break the conjugal bonds between you and Christ, but bring you unto the most full and everlasting possession of your beloved.