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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.
2. See that you give reverence unto Christ to whom you are espoused: He is your Lord, and you must reverence, and stand in awe of him; take heed of pride, passion, discontent with your condition, murmurings under affliction, and every other sin which is displeasing to Christ, and unbecoming the reverence which you owe to him.
3. Be loving and faithful unto Christ, receive not any creature in the world into the embracements of that dearest love which doth belong to your espoused Husband; love him supremely, and love him ardently, and labour to increase in love to him daily.
4. Be subject unto Christ, and careful to please him in every thing, be ready to yield universal obedience unto whatsoever he shall reveal to you to be his will.
4. Be subject unto Christ, and careful to please him in every thing, be ready to yeild universal obedience unto whatsoever he shall reveal to you to be his will.
5. Endeavour to maintain daily communion with him in his Ordinance, desire not ordinances for themselves, but for the sake of Christ; grieve when he withdraws, and is absent; rejoice when he draws near, and manifesteth his presence.