CHRIST the best Husband: Or an earnest Invitation
to Young Women to come and see CHRIST.
Preached to a Society of Young Women, in _Fetter-Lane_.
PSALM xlv. 10, 11.
_Hearken, O Daughter, and consider, and incline thine Ear:
Forget also thine own People, and thy Father’s House: So shall
the King greatly desire thy Beauty; for he is thy Lord, and
worship thou him._
THIS psalm is called the song of loves, the most pure and spiritual,
the most dear and delightful loves; namely, those which are between
CHRIST the beloved, and his church, which is his spouse; wherein is set
forth, first, the LORD JESUS CHRIST in regard of his majesty, power,
and divinity, his truth, meekness and equity: And then the spouse
is set forth, in regard of her ornaments, companions, attendants and
posterity; and both in regard of their comeliness and beauty. After
the description of CHRIST, an invitation to his espousals, is given
the children of men, called by the name of daughter; and therefore,
particularly applicable unto you, my dear sisters, as being the
daughters of men, yet not so as excluding the sons of men.
I shall now, therefore, consider the words, as spoken to you in
particular, and containing this doctrine;
That the LORD JESUS CHRIST doth invite the daughters of men to be his
spouse; and is exceeding desirous of their beauty; who, forgetting
their people and father’s house, do hearken, consider and incline to
his invitation, and join themselves to him in this relation.