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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.
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.
5. Put on the white raiment and clean garments and rich robes which Christ hath provided for you; I mean the attire of grace, the robes of his perfect righteousness, in these garments you will be beautiful and accepted.
6. Reach forth the hand of faith, and lay hold on him, consent that you will have him, and receive him upon his own terms, and he is yours for ever.
6. Reach forth the hand of faith, and lay hold on him, consent that you will have him, and receive him upon his own tearms, and he is yours for ever.