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A01889	Spiritual marriage: or, The vnion betweene Christ and his Church As it was delivered in a sermon at Westminster, the first of Ianuarie. Anno Dom. 1626. By Iames Baillie, Master of Arts.	Baillie, James, Master of Arts.	1627 (1627)	STC 1203; ESTC S120307	33,214	58

of many good Christians massacred vpon St. Baltholmewes day at Paris whose wounds are yet fresh bleeding in the memories of men that liue and saw them at Tollouse Orleans Boitiers and many more places in France with the blood of many a hundred thousand butchered most beastly in west Flanders by the Duke of Alphe because they would not receiue the marke of the Beast in their foreheads what shall I say of our Martyrs vnder Q MARIES raigne or of that Beasts crueltie and insatiable desire of blood that lately heere most furiously in King IAMES his time intended to haue blowne vp our Parliament house I can say nothing but beleeue that that which St IOHN many yeares agone foretold is fulfilled that is Revel 18.4 that Babylon even that great Citie vpon the seaven Mountaines is become the habitation of Devils the hold of all foule spirits a cage of every vncleane and hatefull bird Thirdly this Church of the elect this Chosen generation is distinguished from the Church of all other Heretikes and Schismatikes which is generatio reproborium a reprobated generation of this order are Manicheans Arrians Brownists Familists and such like which esteeme none to bee members of the mysticall Body of CHRIST except those that bee of their most wicked and execrable opinions Puritans I will not deale so rigorously with you howsoever you are but tares among the wheate and albeit you hold none to bee professors of the Gospell but your seditious and Schismatike societie and therefore cals and termes your selues Professors per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 notwithstanding that your profession is nothing but lip-labour renting in the meane season the coate of CHRIST whereupon the barbarous Souldiers did cast lottes and spared the same breaking downe the walles of Ierusalem which * TITVS Ioseph a heathen Emperour would haue suffered to stand drowning that Arke which the generall Deluge would not drowne when it drowned all the world burning that bushe wherevpon the cruell raging fire had pittie and compassion and In a word you endeuour by your ignorant and malicious Schismes to demolish that house which is built vpon a rocke against which the gates of hell shall not preuaile for when any of the faithfull seruants of God takes paines for the home bringing of a lost Papist to the true sheepefold and Church of CHRIST It is the first thing which he obiecteth against vs yee are devided amongst your selues I cannot tell whether I shall imbrace the opinion of your Church or of your Puritane and for is the conuersion of sinners stayed by your wofull generation the kingdome of Sathan propagated the kingdome of CHRIST diminished and Christian religion exposed both to ludibrie and opprobrie both to mockerie and to shame and yet you haue eyes and eares but will neither see it nor heare it I thinke the curse of the Gospell is vpon you and cursed be those that preferre not Ierusalem to their chiefe joy never may they prosper that loue not that wish not peace within her sacred walls Fourthly and lastly this chosen generation is distinguished from the whole visible vniuersall Church here below which is generatio miscellaneorum a mixed generation and may bee compared to a net which gathereth both fish and scorpions to a field in which groweth both wheat and tares to a garden in which are both weeds and flowers because in the vniuersall visible Church et sanctis Ecclesiae locis are both Christ and Antichrist Pastors and Wolues truth and lies Sheepe and goates good Christians and dissembling hypocrites vessells of election and Children of wrath and often greater store of the worst then of the best Secondly againe this Church of the elect Heb. 12.32 Heb. 12.32 is called the Congregation of the first borne whose names are written in heauen because the names of the elect are written in the booke of life Thirdly Ephes the first and last Ephes 1. it is called the bodie of Christ and by consequence false hypocriticall and prophane Christians are not members thereof because such are but dead members which can be no part of the liuely body of IESVS CHRIST Fourthly Reuel 21.9 Revel 21.9 It is called the Bride and the Lambes wife because Christ hath married her vnto himselfe in iudgement in righteousnesse in wisdome in mercy and in compassion Hos 2. Hos 2. And it is to this Church of the elect this chosen generation this assemblie this congregation of the first borne this body of Christ and to this Bride the Lambes wife to which this promise of comfort is made Cant. 4. I will marrie thee vnto me for euer This Church is hortus conclusus an inclosed peece of ground as the garden of Eden and lieth within a hedge or fence This Church and none other is the spouse of IESVS CHRIST to which he hath joyned himselfe in marriage and which he will make vnto himselfe a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle holy and vnreproueable and out of this Church their can be no saluation in which regard saith St. AVSTEN Qui Ecclesiam non habuit pro matre nunquam Deum habebit pro patre who had not the Church to his mother shall neuer haue God to be his father to which I will adde nec Christum pro capite marito not Christ to be his head and husband and this made the good Emperour THEODOSIVS to conclude Malo esse membrum Ecclesiae quam caput Imperque I had rather be a member of the Church then head of the whole Empire And thus much for this word Church in my text the significations and names thereof and to which Church this promise is made I will marry thee vnto me for euer to the Church of the 〈◊〉 and so I come to the explanation of the three similitudes by which our vnion with Christ is most richly expressed the first whereof is the similitude of the roote and the grafts Can there be a more straight vnion apprehended can there bee a more neere coniunction imagined then this betweene the stock and the branches betweene the roote and the grafts The similitude betweene the graft and the roote it is not possible and yet such a one is our vnion with Christ In the 15. of St. Ioh. the fifth verse Iohn 15.5 I am the vine yee are the branches This is a metaphor a borrowed speech from planting Three things obseruable in which yee shall take notice of these three First of the roote or stock Secondly of the grafts or branches and Thirdly of the manner of ingrafting As to the first the roote or stock wherein this ingrafting is made is CHRIST called by himselfe the true vine by the Apostles the true oliue tree Rom. 11.17 and by the Prophets the roote of Iesse Isa 11.10 This true vine this true oliue and this roote of Iesse IESVS CHRIST hath that great husbandman the eternall God dressed and prepared in which he hath ingrafted so many

SPIRITVAL MARRIAGE OR THE VNION betweene CHRIST and his CHVRCH As it was delivered in a Sermon at WESTMINSTER the first of Ianuarie ANNO DOM. 1626. By IAMES BAILLIE Master of Arts. LONDON Printed by B.A. and T. FAVVCET for ROBERT ALLOT and are to be sold at his Shop at the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard 1627. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE IAMES Marquis of HAMMILTON WILLIAM Earle of MORTON WILLIAM Earle of LAVTHIAN THOMAS Earle of KELLIE IAMES Earle of CARLILL RICHARD Earle of DESMONT IOHN Earle of ANNANDAILL WILLIAM Vice count of AIRE GEORGE Lord BRVCE And to the Right Worshipfull Sr. IAMES FVLLERTON Groome of his Maiest Stoole Sr. ROBERT CAR Gentleman of his Maiest Bed-chamber and Keeper of the Privie-purse Mr. IAMES MAXVVELL Mr. KIRKE Mr. WILLIAM MVRRAY Mr. IAMES LEVINGSTON and Mr. PIT CARNE Groomes of his Maiesties Bed-chamber And to all other Hon and Wor Scotsmen remaining at the Court of England that professe the true Ancient Catholike and Apostolike faith all blessed Happinesse in this life and Eternall blisse in the life to come Right HONOVRABLE and WORSHIPFVLL SOme perhaps may thinke that I haue done an absurd thing in prefixing so many illustrious Peeres prudent Nobles and Gentlemen of his Maiesties Bed-chamber of high and great desert to so little and so slender a worke But from the learned I hope for a lesse critick censure and from the wise for a more judicious sentence first because I know that this weake treatise hath need not only of one strong pillar but of many to vphold it against the ruine which both by Papists and false Brethren will maliciously bee threatened against it and against their subterranian plots by which at every corner they will intend to vndermine it Neverthelesse I will never deny but any one of your Hon or Wor is a prop more then sufficient enough to sustaine a more decaying edifice if any such can be apprehended and a booke of greater worth should haue but too much honour to haue any one of your names in its frontispiece Secondly because I would encourage you and rouze vp your spirits to a liuelie confidence that by adoption you are the sonnes of Gods right hand members of his body flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone a part of that chosen generation The Church of the elect and spouse of Christ by marriage vnited vnto him and freed from that Antichristian slaverie and Babilonian bondage with the wine of whose fornication a great part of the world these many ages past haue beene made drunke and therefore God hath made you strong strong for himselfe in this time of triall when the sonnes of Anti-christ breathes nothing but blood against the Church of Christ and against her in many places of Germany haue preuailed casten out Christ and in his place set vp that abominable Idoll their Masse and now threaneth our Church the Church within this Island with the like to extinguish the lampe of the glorious Gospell which God hath lighted amongst vs to remoue our candlestick and in lieu thereof to light false lights to set vp rusty darke candlesticks Their seruice in an vnknowne tongue their Idols in stead of instructions and their Apostles bones and clothes in place of the writings of Christs Apostles But God hath made you strong for himselfe to fight in his warre to hold the wild Boares out of his vineyard and in his cause neither to spare your bodies nor goods even in his cause which your Fathers as his instruments did re-establish in the Monarchie of Scotland expelling the children of Dagon 2. Thes 2. which had come in by the effectuall working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse and you honoring the Lord after this manner he will multiply honours vpon you keepe you as a signet vpon his hand Ezech 34. and vpon you and euery one of you there shall be raine of blessings the eye of the Lord shall watch ouer you for good his mighty hand and out stretched arme shall bee ready to protect you in euery danger and to appoint most glorious victories for you for Babylon is now toward the falling her sins are come vp to heaven and God hath remembred her iniquities shee must drinke in that cup that she hath filled to others and as she hath shed our blood so now must she be repayed and drinke a double draught Thirdly I haue presumed to dedicate this Treatise vnto your Hon and Wor not onely for the excellencie of the subiect The vnion betweene Christ and his Church of which you are a part But likewise because I am a Scotsman that haue the honour to belong to euery one of you either by blood or affinitie and to many of you by both whereof I hope you shall neuer be ashamed and therefore I thought it not amisse to let this Sermon go vnder the shadow of your Honorable protections that now remaine at the Court of England as an argument of my loue toward my Country and as a pledge of my seruice toward you all in generall euery one of you in particular In the meane season continuing my prayers that such a vertuous emulation may alwaies remaine among you as is to day that is first of all to aduance Gods glory secondly to be loyall to your King that by innumerable predecessors hath swayed your Scepter and lastly some of you with Pompie to study to preserue your Dignitie others with Crassus to augment it and the third sort with Caesar to acquire Dignitie not by vsurpation as he did But in your Soueraignes seruice vnder the banner of CHRIST Farewell Your Honours and Worships most humble Seruant IAMES BAILLIE To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader J haue not vsed as many doe in this Sermon the neat Tenour of ISOCRATES the ample Sublimitie of DEMOSTHENES the Majestie of THVCYCIDES the Dignitie of PLATO nor that most full and copious stile of declamation which TVLLIE vsed before the Senate yea I haue shunned them as by a good Master SCILLA and CARYBDIS will bee eschewed because I know that such garulitie such fallible inticements of words and such vaine ostentation in Preaching sauoureth the flesh and hath no power no vertue nor efficacie to wound a proud minde and to cast it downe nor to be a balme for the curing and raising vp of the same againe to a liuely confidence in CHRIST Jt onely tendeth to tickle the auditors eares for the present to enter at the one and goe forth at the other but neuer to descend into the heart for its circumcision and molification in time to come A simple stile without superfluitie in words fertile in sentences which doth not so much smell of humaine prudencie as sauour the vertue of the holy Spirit is the onely eloquence that penetrates the soules of Christian men and searcheth to the inward marrow of the same It is truth that an Orator once perswaded CAESAR to retreit