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Epbefana,
Chap.S.
'49
fling and
he ftilf a
Beer
How
can
a
Phy.fitian
hate a
difeafe and
love
his
Patient
This
muff
flirre
us
up
to
waïte
for the glorious
appearance of
Yf
z.
Chrift,
when this glory
(hail be
put 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
them
on Sunday
:
fo
we
though but
naked
and
ragged here,
fhould
comfort
our felves,
as
who
know that
we
have
better
layd
up
for
us.
Laftly,
hence
a
note may be gathered
by
proportion,
for the
inflru= Yfe
4.
dion
of
husbands.
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 they
muff
labour
to
clenfe
their
wives
of
the fpots
of
their
fouls, not
by
playing the lyon
in
the houfc,
as
the
wife man faith, but by trying
all
loving
meancs
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
why
men fhould love
their
wives,
becaufe
they
are
their
bodies,
for the Apoftle doth not onely intimate
the manner
of
love
:
but rendreth
a
reafon
by
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 loveth
his wife,
loveth him
-
(rife, which
could
not be
faid
out
of
the former,
if
he
had
not
affir-
med
of
them, that they
hadbeene
the bodies after
a
fort
of
men and
pieces
of
himfelfe. Having propounded it, he
doth
prove the firft
part
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
doth
cherifh
his
body,which the
beleeving
are affirmed
by way
of
prevention
to be,or by
way
of
rendring
a
reafon
why theChurch
is
cherifhed.
3.
From the conftitution which doth
give the wife
a
neerer
place
then
Father or mother,
as
being 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 before
he had
fpoken;
which
his fen-
tence
is
firft
propounded,then expounded:propounded
in
thofe
words,
This
is
a
great
myflerie;
Expounded by way of correction
in
the next
words,I
mean this
which
I
have
faid
concerning
Chrift
&
his
Church.
Then
we are
to
confider, that
therefore
we
mufllave
our
wives,
6e-
Doll.
t.
eauf