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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. 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.
5. Endeavour to mantain 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; rejoyce when he draws near, and manifesteth his presence.
6. Look, and long, and prepare for Christs second appearance, when the nuptials between you shall be solemnized, and you taken to live with him for ever in mansions of everlasting joys.
6. Look, and long, and prepare for Christs second appearance, when the nuptials between you shall be solemnized, and you taken to live with him for ever in mansions of everlasting joyes.