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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.
Qu. But what shall we do that we may be espoused unto Jesus Christ?
Answ. 1. Be sensible of your need of Christ, and this espousal unto him, without which, you are slaves unto sin and Satan, children of wrath, hated by God here, and in danger of eternal ruin in the other world; and therefore that there is a necessity of this relation unto Christ, that you may hereby be interested in his redemption and salvation.
Answ. 1. Be sensible of your need of Christ, and this espousal unto him, without which, you are slaves unto sin and Sathan, children of wrath, hated by Godhere, and in danger of eternal ruine in the other world; and therefore that there is a necessity of this relation unto Christ, that you may hereby be interested in his redemption and salvation.
2. Labour for longing desires after this relation unto Christ; he desires that you would be his Spouse, and do you desire that you may be espoused to him; desire it chiefly, and desire it earnestly; and for this end consider the motives which I have spread before you, to excite your desires after Christ.
3. Diligently seek after this relation to Christ, attend upon the Ordinances which God hath appointed to be the means of bringing and joining