r--------------------------------------- . 48 ., MySifter~mySpouja. ' SE R M. II. 1himfelfeto fanttifie ir ~ith wafhing ofwater and I bloud,Eph.s.26. we are awife of bloud to him. In tbisfweet Conjuntlion,we mufi know,that by nature weare cleane otherwi (e then Spoufts ; for what was Solomons wife, Pharaohs daughter'! a Heathen til £he came to beSolomons Spoufe. And as we read 1n c.fi-tofes, the firange woman mull: have her haire cttt ojf,andher nailes pared, before £he fhould be taken into the Church, there mull: be an alteration:fo before the Church (which is not Heathenifo,but indeed Hellifo l/y nature; and Ifa.rt. 7J s. \led by the fpirit of the world) be fit robe the Iohn ~· 3· Spoufe of Chrifi,there muft bean a1tcration and achange ofnature ; ChrHl: mufi alter, renew, purge,and fit us for himfelfe; the Apoftle faith, Eph.5.t6.Itwasrheend ofhisdeath, nor onely 1 to take us to Heaven,but to fanctifie us on earth, and prepare us that we might be fit Spoufes for himfelfe. . · Vfl r. Let uHJft thif}ke ofthi! nettrnejfe between chr~ft (onfolation. \andu; (ifwe have once given our names to him) · and not be difcouraged for any fin or unwonhi– ~xori ~u 1:on Inelfe inus.Whofoesfor adebt when foe is marned? uuendztur. Theretore anfwer all accufations thus : Goe to Chrifi;ifyou have any thing to fay tome, goe to my husband;Godu juft.}ut he rvill not ht~/ve his ju– flice twice fatis_fied, (eeing whcttfoever is due there1 unto is fotisredby cbrift our Htu6and ? What a 1 1 comfort is this to a dill:rdfed confcience;if linne cannot difmay us, which is the ill of ills and , caufe ofall evill, what other ill can difmay us'! / He that exho.rts us to beare with the infirmities one(
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