---------:,------ ---- - - - · ._ 1_ 4_\ . .Andeat hispleafantfruiis, \ may in a reverend manner fpeake boldly to Chrift : Ic is not fit there lhould be firangenelfe betwixt chrift aad hisSpou.fo;neither indeed will there be,when Chrifi hath6/owne upon her, and Cant. I- 4e Reafon r; :. when fue ison thegrowing ha!ld. · But marlee theOrder. Firfi,Chrifl:Mewes..and then the Church fayes, Come : Clxifi begins in love, then 1ovedrawes love;Chrifi drawes the Church, and fue runnes /after him. Thefire oflovemelts more thenthejreofi .afjliclion. Againe,we may fee here int~eChurch acare– fulndfe to pleaf~· Chriil; as it is the duty, fo it is· the difpoficion ofthe Church ofChrifl: to pleafe her Husband. The Reafon is, Firfi,our happineffe ftands in hiscontcmtmenr, and all cannot but be well in that houfe; where the husband and the wife de– light in,and make much of each orher. And again, after that the Church har hdenied her felfe and the vanitiesoftheworld,entring in– to away and courfe of mortification, whom elfe hath ihe ro give her felfe ro, or receive conrent.! mentfrom-: Our maner is to fiudyto pleafe men whom we hope to rife by, being carefull that all we doemaybe well taken ofthem:as for Chrifl:, we put him off with any thing : If he likes it, fo it is . ~ if nor, it is the beft that he is like to have. ~ ~ 0 let us take the ApofiJes counfeiJ, colojf.I.9. I Col.•. t,n5. 1T() lahotJr to walke worthy ofthe Lord, &c. untoaU , 1 --=--..;\lw .. _e_ll-.... p-le-afi_m_~_,i_nc_r_e" ..... ifi_ng-;n_k_n_ow_l...,ed ...... ~~c ,_a_n_d_fr_ue ..... tfi ...::u::.-, t- ] neffe
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