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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.
Psal. 45. 10, 11. Hearken, (O daughter) and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy fathers house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.
This Psalm is called a Song of Loves, the most high, pure and spiritual, the most dear, sweet, and delightful Loves; namely, those which are between Christ, the Beloved, and his Church, which is his Spouse: wherein is set forth, first, the Lord Jesus Christ, in regard of his Majesty, Power, and Divinity, His truth, meekness and equity; and then the Spouse is set forth in regard of her ornaments, companions, attendants, and posterity; and both are set forth in regard of their loveliness and Beauty. After a Description is given of Christ, an invitation is made unto his Espousals, and that of the children of men, called by the name of Daughter; and therefore ⟨p. 2⟩particularly applicably unto the Daughters o men; yet not so as excluding the sons of men any more than when God speaketh unto the sons of men, he doth exclude the daughters; and with reference chiefly unto the Daughters I shall now speak unto the words; and from hence observe this Doctrine, as comprehensive of the words as I can make it.
THis Psalm is called a Song of Loves, the most high, pure and spiritual, the most dear, sweet, and delightful Loves; namely, those which are between Christ, the Beloved, and his Church, which is his Spouse: wherein is set forth, first, the Lord Jesus Christ, in regard of his Majesty, Power, and Divinity, His truth, meekness and equity; and then the Spouse is set forth in regard of her ornaments, companions, attendants, and posterity; and both are set forth in regard of their loveliness and Beauty. After a Description is given of Christ, an invitation is made unto his Espousals, and that of the children of men, called by the name of Daughter; and therefore ⟨p. 2⟩particularly applicably unto the Daughters o men; yet not so as excluding the sons of men any more than when God speaketh unto the sons of men, he doth exclude the daughters; and with reference chiefly unto the Daughters I shall now speak unto the words; and from hence observe this Doctrine, as comprehensive of the words as I can make it.