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The mystical marriage. A brief essay, on, the grace of the Redeemer espousing the…
The mystical marriage. A brief essay, on, the grace of the Redeemer espousing the soul of the believer. / By the late Reverend Dr. Cotton Mather. ; Approved by several pastors of our churches, as a present, proper to be offered unto our young people: and very particularly when the celebration of a marriage affords an agreeable occasion for it.
Boston N.E.: printed for N. Belknap, 1728
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And I add, In our Compliance, with such a Gracious motion, two things must not be forgotten. Remember This. We must resolve to be forever and entirely at the Disposal of our SAVIOUR; and comply with every thing that He will have to be done either on us, or by us. Our compliance must be without Reserve. And Remember This. If we comply with our SAVIOUR, we must own 'tis His Work that has drawn us and brought us and helped us to it. Our Compliance must not be ascribed unto the Free-will, of an Heart that is Desperately Wicked.
And I add, In our Compliance, with such a Gracious motion, two things must not be forgotten. Remember This. We must resolve to be forever and entirely at the Disposal of our SAVIOUR; and comply with every thing that He will have to be done either on us, or by us. Our compliance must be without Reserve. And Remember This. If we comply with our SAVIOUR, we must own 'tis His Work that has drawn us and brought us and help't us to it. Our Compliance must not be ascribed unto the Free-will, of an Heart that is Desperately Wicked.
III. In your ESPOUSAL to the REDEEMER, who is now making of you Happy in His Espousing of you to Himself, you must particularly consider Him as one Raised from the Dead. The Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead, has, we find, Act. I. 3. Many Infallible Proofs. Never any matter of Fact in the World had such Infallible Proofs!
III. In your ESPOUSAL to the REDEEMER, who is now making of you Happy in His Espousing of you to Himself, you must particularly consider Him as one Raised from the Dead. The Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead, has, we find, Act. I. 3. Many Insallible Proofs. Never any matter of Fact in the World had such Infallible Proofs!