Everlasting Espousals

Excerpt from Everlasting Espousals

Secondly, As Chrift left his Father's houfe for her, {he gives up with her own people, and her Father's houle' for him. Her heart parts with all other lovers, that {he may be his only. She renounceth the (hit bulband, namely, the law, as a covenant of works,, never, to look for Her Living by it, nor her comfort from it any more, Rom. Vii. 4. She renounceth all her lulls arid idols, gives up with them for ever; and fers'a particular mark of difgrace on the beloved lufi {he had a particular fondnefs for, Job xxxiv. 32.