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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
And as the Espoused of the LORD, Count all His Precepts concerning all things to be right, so such as are in the MARRIED STATE of Life, and bear a Conjugal Relation to one another, if they are Espoused unto the Lord, this will be found among the Fruits of it; They will Study in their Good Carriage towards one another to exhibit a Lively Emblem, of what passes between the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and His CHURCH.
Unto a MARRIED COUPLE it is impossible to do any thing more Seasonable and Serviceable, than to Recommend unto them a serious and frequent Meditation [First on their own Latter End, and then] on the Latter End of the Fifth Chapter in the Epistle to the Ephesians. My Friends, the Sum of your ⟨p. 16⟩Duty lies in this. Let the HUSBAND […] How wondrously does my SAVIOUR love his […] and show compassion to it, and make provision for it? Let the WIFE a•te• think, How does the CHURCH study to Gratify her SAVIOUR, and give Him cause to call her Hephzibah, and say, my Delight is in her.
Unto a MARRIED COUPLE it is impossible to do any thing more Seasonable and Serviceable, than to Recommend unto them a serious and frequent Meditation [First on their own Latter End, and then] on the Latter End of the Fifth Chapter in the Epistle to the Ephesians. My Friends, the Sum of your ⟨p. 16⟩Duty lies in this. Let the HUSBAND 〈…〉 How wondrously does my SAVIOUR love his 〈…〉 and show compassion to it, and make provision for it? Let the WIFE a•te• think, How does the CHURCH study to Gratify her SAVlOUR, and give Him cause to call her Hephzibah, and say, my Delight is in her.