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they will stagger and stay away: But let them lay aside their coyness, and once come to him and match with him, and he will make them queens and matches meet for himself. Christ comes to woo his Bride in the garments of condescendency; he took upon him our nature, that he might say to the worms of the earth ye are my brethren and my sisters: And, O glorious is he in these garments, being also cloathed in the robes of ravishing majesty. How compleat and how free a Saviour is he? yea, how communicative a good? so that each of his own have him so, as if not any other besides them had him: Each of us have as much of the fun, as we would have, tho' there were no others on the earth to partake with us; so is the enjoyment of that blessed Son of righteouness to all his chosen, each of them hath him all. O, what a blessed enjoyment is this, which each of his saints doth enjoy without envying or wronging one another! what a blessed choice is Christ! what a lovely choice is he! O! he is lovely, and all that chose him will say, he is lovely, and that they have made a brave bargain. What was said of the heathen Socrates, all that knew him loved him; and if they did not love him, it is because they did not know him. Indeed they that love not Christ, it is because they do not know him. If he were known what a great, gracious, powerful, loving, beautiful and excellent One he is, the heart would be filled with love unto him. If he were known, the souls out-cry would be, he is altogether matchless! who is like unto him? Love thinketh the beloved hath no parallel; and love loveth all that is the beloved's: Hence, as Christ is lovely to his own, so his cause is precious, it is precious, it is precious, it is his declarative glory; it is that whereby he maketh his name known. How honourable is it to be an owner of the same! what badges of honour are reproaches, and revellings upon that account! as love unto him make his cause precious, so, where that is, nothing will be thought too costly to bellow, upon the causesaccount:
