........- ........ ~~===""""'=====z=======~=·. ib For though Iefits Chrift marry thee when · thou art in rhy bloud, yet ,when thou art mar– ried once, he fu!fers thee not to continue fo, but he · will clenfe and wafh thee from it,as we fee in this. · Chapter, the Apofl:le exhorts Husbands to love .their wives, as Chrijtloved the ·Church, .and gave him- · felfe fo>' it, th~&t he might JanEiijie, and cleanft it ·with– ·the wafhin.~ ofwater, UJ the WfJrd, that he might pre- ' fentit tollimfelfa glorious Churchnot _having Spot ' orwrintkle,or anyfuch't-hing but that it {houldbeeholy . without hlemifb; marke it, when Chrift hath 'mar– ried t.bee, his end is, toprefent thee pure, to wafh . ·thee. Now confider whether thou :find_thy felfe cleanfed from thy filthindfe, .and from all filthi– neffe, forwhenhewafuethany, heewafueth them from top to toe, though not fully in refpeCl: o.f : degrees, yet he fuifers not any fpot or wrinckle, toremaineconftantly upon them. For the mea– ning is, not that this wathing is perfeC!ed fud– .daialy~butwhen we cometo heaven, there fhal not be the leall: wrinkle at all :but notwithfianding he · fo ·watbeth them here, that there is no fpot re.,. mai:nes, that is, they allow not themfelves in any ftnne, thar theywallow not in any puddle, he fo ·t~lenfeth them from every finne, that it doth not 'bide there 1 a beleever is {lill purifyi11g himfelfe , though he be !l:ill,defi !ed; therefore confider with thy felfe, whether Chriil: have thus denfecl. thee from al pollution of flel11 and fpirit .Befide in this watbing, hedoth not onely clenfe thee from all outward defilements, but he will wafu thee from thy filthy naturf, not onely from the outward Bb 2 {l:aynes i
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