...my joy therefore is fulfilled, John iii. 29. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy : for 1 have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ, Й Cor. xi. 2. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands...

...Scriptures. in a figurative allusion to the church in her union with Christ. ' I have espoused ton to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.' Then cu be no permanent happiness in such a connexion, where Christ is not known andhiiloR felt." The...

...has also been considered, Sect. 7. The only other text relative to this subject, is 2 Cor. xi. 3. " But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ." See some remarks...

...fruit thereof, and did eat ; and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat, Gen. iii. 6. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through hie subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ, 2 Cor. xi. 3....

...office, in gathering and conducting penitent believers to Jesus Christ, almost under the same allusion, " I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ'." By the Virgins, daughters of Jerusalem, the remaining party in the dialogue,...

...this might be the state of the church of Corinth, the apostle made it his endeavour ; 2 Cor. xi. 2, 3. 'I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. And I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should...

...that day there will be a solemnization of the marriage. " I have espoused you," saith the apostle, " to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ ;":{: let the bride then make herself ready, let your loins be girt about, and your lights burning,...

...has also been considered, Sect. 7. The only other text relative to this subject, is 2 Cor. xi. 3. " But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ." See some remarks...

...has also been considered, Sect. 7. The only other text relative to this subject, is 2 Cor. xi. 3. " But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ." See some remarks-on...

...hope. ' We are troubled,' saith St. Paul, ' on every aide; without were fightings, within were fears. I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his snbtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. I fear, lest when...