I . · The Churches Marriage. :z. 9 , fooneas wee are in Chrift, th~re is_notapromife { in all the booke of God, .but lt belongs to us} that is tbe mifery of another man that is not in Chrifi, there is not one promife his. Therefore till thou have him, thou haft nothing •. And befides the hope ofthe promifts, confi~ der vvbat you have for the pre!ent, vvhat dowry he brings vvith him, in I Cor. 3. wherefare let no man rejoyce in men; for all things are yours, n'hether it be Paul,or Apollos,or Ceph.'t-! ,or the world, &c.all is ' yours, and you are Chriils. Marke,here·is the ex- , preilion ofrhatdowry,that Chrifi brings withhim an Inventory ofthe wealth ofa Chriflian, faith– he; when once y·ou are matched to Cbrift, all that ' is his belongs to you; Pilul, or ApoUos, or Ceph:u, all his Servants, all arebefiowed on you!, ·to wait upon the Spoufe , as it were; he bath given all eo you,all thofe gifts are befiowed on them for your fakes .': he fides, the rvorld u JOr~ors, rhat-· is:, as far-re .. as it is good for ·you, the world and ~all things · in the wor·ld ~re fo a (:hriiliafls j though he have but litde of1t, yet indeedthe worJdis his . ·other men are the worlds: ifwee fpeake properit, the world is .not fa id to be any mans, but onely a . Chrifiians; for his ufe, he is the malter ofit~ Indeed,whileft a man is in his minority, (you know ' the heire do~h not poffeffe his' goods, becaufe . it is the time of his education,fo) it may be thou ; haft not full'poffeffion: It is djfpenfed to the,~ as · the Lord fees rneete, becaufe it is the time of thy 3 · ~urtureand education, thou art ia thy minority, out yet ther.'orld is thine. Then he goes on, life or . • l , deAth, . . 1 ----------~--------------------~~--~~
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