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A64978 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. Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678. 1672 (1672) Wing V428; ESTC R219230 16,515 32

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for your affections and perswade you to give them unto Christ May I be instrumental to joyn you and Christ together this day Be not coy as some of you possibly are in other Loves Modesty and the Virgin blush may very well become you when motions of another kind are made unto you but here coyness is folly and backwardness to accept of this motion is a shame and you have ten thousand times more reason to blush at the refusal of Christ for your beloved than at the acceptance when otherwise the Devil and Sin would ravish your Virgin affections Never had you a better motion made to you never was such a match proffered to you as this of being matched and espoused unto Jesus Christ. 1. Consider whó the Lord Jesus is whom you are invited to espouse your selves unto He is the best Husband none comparable to Jesus Christ. 1. Do you desire one that is great He is of the highest dignity none ever did or could climb into so high a seat or attain such excellent Majesty as that which Christ is exalted unto he is exalted above all the Kings of the Earth Rev. 19. 16. He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a Name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS Yea he is exalted above the Angels in Heaven and none have such authority 1 Pet. 3. 22. Who is gone into Heaven Angels and Authority and Powers being made subject unto him He is the first-born of every creature by whom and for whom all things were created He is before all things and by him all things do consist He is the Head of the Church the beginning the first born from the dead and as over all persons so in all things he hath the preheminence Col. 1. 15 16 17 18. He is the brightness of his Fathers glory the express image of his person Heb. 1. 3. He is the glory of Heaven the darking of eternity admired by Angels dreaded by Devils adored by Saints If the meanest Beggar should be matched unto the greatest earthly Prince that ever lived it would not be such an advancement unto her as for you to be espoused to the Lord Jesus Christ the King of glory whose honour and dignity you will partake of in and by this relation 2. Do you desire one that is rich None is comparable unto Christ who is the heir of all things Heb. 1. 2. in whom all fulness doth dwell Col. 1. 19. Not only the fulness of the earth doth belong to him Psal. 24. 1. but also the fulness of Heaven is at his dispose all things being given and delivered unto him by the Father Ioh. 3. 35. Matth. 11. 26. the riches of grace are at his dispose and the riches of glory in him are hid all treasures Col. 2. 3. and the Apostle speaketh of the unsearchable riches of Christ Eph. 3. 8. The riches of Christ are unsearchable in regard of the worth of them they are inestimable the value of them is past finding out and they are unsearchable in regard of the abundance of them they are inexhanstible none can draw dry Christs Fountain none can search and find out the bottom of Christs treasury If you be espoused unto Christ you shall share in his unsearchable riches you shall receive of his fulness grace for grace here and glory for glory hereafter and he will make all needful provisions for your outward man whilst your abode is here in this world 3. Do you desire one that is wise There is none comparable unto Christ for wisdome His knowledge is infinite and his wisdome is correspondent Solomon exceeded all that went before him or that followed after him in wisdome but he did not so far exceed a man of the meanest wit and shallowest capacity as he was exceeded by Jesus Christ Christ is not only wise but wisdom Matth. 11. 19. the wisdome of God 1 Cor. 1. 24. Christ is infinitely wise in himself and he is the spring of all the true spiritual and heavenly wisdome which is derived unto any of the children of men Col. 2. 3. In him are hid all treasures of wisdome and knowledge If you be espoused unto Christ he will guide and counsel you and make you wise unto salvation 4. Do you desire one that is potent who may defend you against your enemies and any kind of injuries and abuses There is none that can equal Christ in power others have some power but Christ hath all power Matth. 28. 18. Others may be potent but Christ is omnipotent others have power Christ is power the power of God 1 Cor. 1. 24. And if you be espoused unto Christ his infinite power is engaged in your desence against your enemies He will subdue your iniquities Mic. 7. 19. By that power whereby he is able to subdue all things Philip. 3. 21. He will bruise Sathan under your feet Rom. 16 20. He will keep you from the evil of the world Ioh. 17 15 He will make you more than conquerours over all your spiritual enemies who without his help would not only abuse and injure you but also ruine and destroy you Rom. 8. 37. 5. Do you desire one that is good There is none like unto Christ in this regard others may have some goodness but it is imperfect Christs goodness is compleat and perfect He is full of goodness and in him dwelleth no evil He is good and he doth good and if you are espoused unto Christ however bad you are by nature he will make you in some measure good like himself 6. Do you desire one that is beautiful Christ is fairer than the children of men Psal 43. 2. He is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand Cant. 5. 10. His mouth is most sweet yea he is altogether lovely v. 16. His eyes are most sparkling his looks and glances of love are most ravishing his smiles are most delightful and refreshing unto the Soul Christ is the most lovely and amiable person of all others in the world none so accomplished in all regard as he is accomplished and therefore he is most desirable in this relation and however unlovely you are in your selves however deformed and defiled by sin yet if you be espoused unto Christ he will put his comeliness upon you he will wash you in a bath made of his own bloud from your defilements and beautifie you with his own image and so you shall become exceeding fair and as you may have leave to delight your selves in Christs beauty so he will greatly desire and delight in yours as in the Text Hearken O daughter and consider incline thine ear c. so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty 7. Do you desire one that can love you None can love you like unto Christ His love is incomparable and his love is incomprehensible his love passeth all others love and it passeth knowledge too Eph. 3. 19. His love is first without any beginning his love is free without any motive his love is