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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.
7. Devote your selves to him body, and soul, and all, to be his for ever; and then you may say, My Beloved is mine, and I am his; and then happy, happy you that ever you were born!
2. To you that are espoused unto Jesus Christ:
1. Admire and adore that rich and free grace which hath chosen and brought you into this relation; say, Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the praise: Say, O wonderful! wonderful! wonderful Love! that we should be made the Spouse of Christ! We that had no Beauty! we that had no Dowry! that we who embraced Dunghills should ⟨p. 29⟩be taken into the embracements of the Lord! O Infinite condescending kindness!
1. Admire and adore that rich and free grace which hath chosen and brought you into this relation; say, Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the praise: Say, O wonderful! wonderful! wonderful Love! that we should be made the Spouse of Christ! We that had no Beauty! we that had no Dowry! that we who embraced Dunghils should ⟨p. 29⟩be taken into the embracements of the Lord! O Infinite condescending kindness!