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A glorious espousal. A brief essay, to illustrate and prosecute the marriage, wherein our…
A glorious espousal. A brief essay, to illustrate and prosecute the marriage, wherein our great Saviour offers to espouse unto himself the children of men. And thereupon to recommend from that grand pattern a good carriage in the married life among them. : An essay proper and useful in the hands of those who travel on the noble design of espousing the souls of men unto their Saviour. But more particularly and seasonably to be presented, where a marriage is upon a celebration.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Gray, 1719
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Expost. VI. If you will not give a Right and a Fit Answer to the Motion which your SAVIOUR makes of your Espousal to Him, I Pray, think on some Answer to an Awful Question, with which I am now to come upon you; An Awful Question, which indeed all the Angels in Heaven can give no Answer to! Tis that Awful Question, Heb. II. 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so Great Salvation? I must say unto you; See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For, if you Refuse an Espousal unto a SAVIOUR, who does now solicit for it, what can you expect, when He shall be Revealed from Heaven, with His mighty Angels, in Flaming Fire, to take Vengeance on them that obey not His Gospel? ⟨p. 36⟩Yea, If you Refuse and Rebel, you shall be devoured, by that Fiery Indignation of GOD which is to Devour His Adversaries; The Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it For you to think on the inexpressible Glories, whereto our SAVIOUR will then advance those whom He has Espoused unto Himself; and feel your selves banished into intolerable Torments, with the Devils to whom you would now rather give your selves than to your SAVIOUR: But then to think, My seasonable speaking of ONE WORD would have saved me from all of this! Oh! The Regret, Oh! The Remorse, Oh! the Unsufferable Anguish, that your Forsaken Souls must be thrown into! Oh! Think; What shall I do, when the SAVIOUR whom I now refuse, riseth up and cometh down, and when the GOD whose Visits of Love I now refuse, does Visit in His Wrath, What shall I answer Him?
Expost. VI. If you will not give a Right and a Fit Answer to the Motion which your SAVIOUR makes of your Espousal to Him, I Pray, think on some Answer to an Awful Question, with which I am now to come upon you; An Awful Question, which indeed all the Angels in Heaven can give no Answer to! Tis that Awful Question, Heb. II. 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so Great Salvation? I must say unto you; See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For, if you Refuse an Espousal unto a SAVIOUR, who does now sollicit for it, what can you expect, when He shall be Revealed from Heaven, with His mighty Angels, in Flaming Fire, to take Vengeance on them that obey not His Gospel? ⟨p. 36⟩Yea, If you Refuse and Rebel, you shall be devoured, by that Fiery Indignation of GOD which is to Devour His Adversaries; The Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it For you to think on the inexpressible Glories, whereto our SAVIOUR will then advance those whom He has Espoused unto Himself; and feel your selves banished into intollerable Torments, with the Devils to whom you would now rather give your selves than to your SAVIOUR: But then to think, My seasonable speaking of ONE WORD would have saved me from all of this! Oh! The Regret, Oh! The Remorse, Oh! the Unsufferable Anguish, that your Frsaken Souls must be thrown into! Oh! Think; What shall I do, when the SAVIOUR whom I now refuse, riseth up and cometh down, and when the GOD whose Visits of Love I now refuse, does Visit in His Wrath, What shall I answer Him?