VE R. z$'. Epbefana, Chap.S. '49 fling and he ftilf a Beer How can a Phy.fitian hate adifeafe and love his Patient This muff flirre us up to waïte for the glorious appearance of Yf z. Chrift, when this glory (hail beput upon us, even to groane after it with fighes which cannot be uttered. It muff comfort us in Peeing our nakedneffe and our ragged foules Yfe 3^ to heare that we have better raiment, a more happie condition. Chil- dren with their companions, when they arc homely clad, and Ice o- thers gay, will fay, they have finer coates then thofe, they are locked up, they (hail weare themon Sunday : fowe though but naked and ragged here, fhould comfort our felves, as who know that we have better laydup forus. Laftly, hencea note may be gathered by proportion,for the inflru= Yfe 4. dion ofhusbands. Chrift his exemplary love fheweth it felfe in thole two things. r. Hedoth clenfe us from our fpots. 2. He Both it in moft kinde manner, not giving us the whore, though we be adulteref- fes, but laying downe his life, and making a bath of his owne blood; which doth teach husbands that theymuff labour to clenfe their wives of the fpots oftheir fouls, not by playing the lyon in the houfc, as the wife man faith, but by trying all lovingmeancs that ferve to this pur- pole. VERSE z 8. So ought men to lave their wives root their owse bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himfelfe. Now followeth a fecond reafon whymen fhould love theirwives, becaufe theyare their bodies, for the Apoftle doth not onely intimate the mannerof love : but rendreth a reafonby affirming this of them, that they are the bodies of men; which is plaine by the deduecion ' which is inferred upon this, v4,He that lovethhis wife, loveth him- (rife, whichcould not be faidout of the former, if he had not affir- med of them, that theyhadbeene the bodies after a fort of men and pieces of himfelfe. Having propounded it, hedoth prove the firftpart of the reafon by three arguments, viZ. that men arc to love their bodies; r. From the prefident in Nature: none but loveth his owne flab, it is againft kind to doe otherwife. z. From Chrifts example, he dothcherifh his body,which the beleeving are affirmed by wayof prevention to be,or by wayof rendring a reafon why theChurch is cherifhed. 3. From the conftitution which doth give the wife a neerer place then Father or mother, asbeing one flefh. Having thus propounded and proved his reafon, he concludeth this point with acclamation, bearing record that there was a hidden con- templation in Ionic things that beforehe had fpoken; which his fen- tence is firft propounded,then expounded:propounded in thofewords, This is agreat myflerie; Expounded by way of correction in the next words,I mean this which I have faidconcerning Chrift & hisChurch. Then we are to confider, that therefore we mufllave ourwives, 6e- Doll. t. eauf
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