Christ the best husband

3. Diligently seek after this relation to Christ, attend upon the Ordinances which God hath appointed to be the means of bringing and joining ⟨p. 28⟩you and Christ together: such as hearing the word, prayer, &c. seek after Christ in hearing, and rest not in the outside of the duty, and cry mightily to God in prayer, that he would draw you and join you by his spirit unto his Son.

3. Diligently seek after this relation to Christ, attend upon the Ordinances which God hath appointed to be the means of bringing and joyning ⟨p. 28⟩you and Christ together: such as hearing the word, prayer, &c. seek after Christ in hearing, and rest not in the outside of the duty, and cry mightily to God in prayer, that he would draw you and joyn you by his spirit unto his Son.

4. Put off your filthy garments, I do not speak of the garments about your bodies, but of the filthy rags of sin which are about your Souls: you must lay aside all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, all pride, and envy, and malice, and worldliness, and inordinate affection, and evil concupiscence, and every other defiling lust; these are the old clothes of the old man which must be put off if you would be espoused unto Christ.

4. Put off your filthy garments, I do not speak of the garments about your bodies, but of the filthy raggs of sin which are about your Souls: you must lay aside all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, all pride, and envy, and malice, and worldliness, and inordinate affection, and evil concupisence, and every other defiling lust; these are the old clothes of the old man which must be put off if you would be espoused unto Christ.