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the Church were to make S. Pauls discourse to be very dilute Then he comes to the duty of the Husband vers 25. which he drawes likewise from the manner of Christs behaviour to the Church Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himselfe for it and so onward to the 28. verse where he shewes that as the Wife was to honour the Husband as her Head because Christ was the head of the Church so the Husband was to love the Wife as his body because the Church is the body of Christ vers 28 29 30 31. And then in the close of all he gives an accompt why he had used this Parallel all along For this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave to his wife and they two shall be one flesh This is a great Mystery I speak of Christ and the Church that is because The Vnion between Christ and the Church thus Adumbrated and Shadowed out in the Vnion of Man and Wife is a great Mystery For this sense the very connexion it selfe doth sufficiently imply I will now come to shew how well this doctrine was understood among the ancient Jewes especially by the MASTERS of the CABALA which is a kind of secret and mysticall Divinity remaining in part yet amongst them that is almost wholly built if I mistake not upon this one foundation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. That every thing which is below hath some ROOT above Wherefore they call these inferiour things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Branches and the Sephiroth above 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Roots Now they tell us that the Vnion between Man Wife here below is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Branch of the mysticall Vnion between Tiphèret and Malcuth above which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Root of it And these Tipheret and Malcuth are two of those ten Sephiroth or Emanations of † For the Etym●n of the word Sephiroth is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sa●phirus by the Author of Shaa●e Ora●●● Po●tae 〈◊〉 Light above in the Archetypall world which are the same Originally that Sponsus and Sponsa are Derivatively and Typically here below Now that we may see who these were and that they meant nothing else by them but that which we call God or Christ and the Church although expressed in a little more Metaphysicall manner let us examine further what they say concerning them Archangelus de Burgo Novo a man well skilled in this faculty speaks thus of them according to the mind of those profound Doctors Secundum Cabalistas duae Veneres sunt Tipheret Malcuth quae dicuntur duo amores etsi sint unus amor per reciprocationem unde Solomon in Canticis Sponsum Tipheret Sponsum Malcuth introducit ad invicem loquentes Where we see that they expound the Song of Solomon concerning these two which every one knowes is a Love-Song betweene the Church and Christ But to cleare it further we must observe that this Malcuth which is Sponsa is otherwise called by them Chenèseth Israel and Beth Israel that is Congregatio Israelis and Domus Israelis for so it is usuall with these Authors to expresse one and the same Sephirah by divers names for fuller explication sake So the learned Authour of that Discourse whose Title is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Influentia Roris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Malcuth is that which is otherwise called Cheneseth Israel or Congregatio Israelis i.e. The Church And Tipheret likewise which is Sponsus is expounded also by the same Author by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam superior in opposition to whom the first terrestriall Adam is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam inferior and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam corporeus As also in those Cabalistick Axioms collected by Mirandula he is called Magnus Adam in these words Rectius dicitur quod Paradisus sit totum aedificium quàm sit Decima in medio ejus collocatus est Magnus Adam qui est Tipheret The meaning whereof is that the terrestriall Paradise was not onely a Type of the tenth Sephirah but of the whole Decade of them because Tipheret the celestiall and Archetypall Adam is placed in the midst of them just as the terrestriall Adam was created in the midst of earthly Paradise So that it is cleare this Tipheret can be nothing else but Christ the true celestiall Adam whom the Scripture sometimes calls the The Persees use to call Noah to this day Adam Asseni which is pure Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. The Second Adam Second Adam The Authour of Shephah Tal before commended speaks thus concerning the mystery of these two Sephiroth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Opera bonorum omnium justorum spirituales eorum intentiones preces sanctae purae ascendunt ad Sephiram Malcuth Sephira Malcuth adornat se illis ut Sponsam sic exhibet se coram Tipheret Viro suo excitat eum ad influendum in eam deorsum And again a little after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malcuth adornat se ut Sponsam bonis operibus justorum per eaexcitat Virum suum Tipheret ad influeudum in eam per Arcanum Facierum By all this mystically describing the Communion between the Church and Christ the Church adorning her self as a Spouse by the holinesse and integrity and good works of the Saints that so she may please her Husband and Christ sending down the Influence of his Spirit again into the Church There is an excellent Speech also to this purpose in that ancient and famous Cabalistick Book made by R. Simeon Ben Iochai whilst he lived for the space of 12. yeares in a dark dungeon for feare of the Romane Persecution in the times of Trajane and therefore called it Zohar that is Splendor As if he had then seen most Intellectuall Light when he saw least Sensible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Dixit R. Iuda quando multiplicantur merita bona opera in Mundo tune Cheneseth Israel exhalat fragrantissimos odores benedicta à Rege sancto facies ejus coruscant Upon which an Hebrew Scholiast thus glosseth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Quando multiplicantur Merita in mundo inferiore quia justi semet excitant per opera bona ad Vniendum Maritandum Mundum inferiorem cum Mundo superiori tunc Malcuth quae dicitur Cheneseth Israel emittit odores fragrantissimos ad Tipheret Virum suum By which passages we may partly see the straine of Cabalisticke Divinity and what a resentment they had of this Notion But Picus Mirandula in his Cabalistick Propositions collected by him from some ancient Jewish Authours puts us downe one that speaks as fully to our purpose as we could imagine Vbicunque in Scriptura sit mentio amoris Maris Faeminae ibi mysticè nobis significatur conjunctio Tipheret Cheneseth Israel for so it should be read and not Chienseth as our printed Copies

erant verò anteà in Essentiâ suâ occultâ conjunctim existentes The meaning is that as soone as Man was created the Church did then flow out of Christ and became distinct from him whereas before it lay hid in him yet so as that Christ and it that is Tipheret and Malcuth were united together againe as Sponsus and Sponsa whereof the Union of Adam and Eve by marriage was some Type and Shadow So then wee may easily unriddle this Cabala whereof the true meaning seems to be nothing else but this that the Church did as it were lie hid in Christ from all Eternity and was Seminally contained in him who therefore might be sayd all that while to have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or else in Plato's language to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. to speak with reverence Male and Female together As the Heathens I know not how in some Arcane sense were wont to describe their Gods For so Orpheus the Father of Ethnicall Theology speaks of Iupiter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which Apuleius in his Book De Mundo thus interprets Iupiter Mas est est que idem Nympha perennis And of Minerva 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And there is an Old Monument at Rome to this day with this Inscription upon it SIVE DEO SIVE DE AE C. TER. DEXTER EX VOTO POSVIT Servius upon that Verse of Virgil in his second AEnead Descendo ducente Deo where the Poet calls Venus Deum in the Masculine Gender notes Loquitur secundùm eos qui dicunt utriusque Sexus participationem habere Numina And this other learned men since have often taken notice of as Petrus Crinitus in his Booke De honesta Disciplina and Casperius Gevartius in the Third Book of his Electa in the explication of that famous Enigme of Elia Lelia Crispis Nec Vir nec Mulier nec Androgyna Which Fortunius Licetus hath more fully since explained in a Volume of purpose upon that Argument And lastly Master Selden in the Prolegomena of his Book DE DIS SYRIS whose words I will here set downe Vide eundem ibidem de Astarte Credidit Vulgus Deum hoc illud Deam Numen Edocti tamen à sacrorum antistitibus solenni invocatione SIVE TU DEUS ES SIVE DEA unumquodque compellabant teste Agellio Arnobio aliis Viriusque scilicet Naturae Masculinae Foemininae vis ineffabilis quam veteres in Deo Vnico Opt. M. agnoscebant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eum vocantes mysticè innuebatur And a little after Rectissimè ad eam mentem Nichomachus Gerasenus in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 libris coeteroqui satis ineptis Vnitatem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 asserit And indeed Hermes Trismegist or whosoever were the Author of Poemander who I think with Casaubon was rather a Christian Divine than a Philosopher calleth God or Christ the true λογοσ and Word of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if seemes in respect of the Creation of the whole world which was made out of that Ideall Fecundity which was in him which might be better applyed to him in respect of the Church and that by the Apostles warrant who hath led us thus farre into this Notion affirming that Beleevers are Members of Christs Body of his Bone and of his Flesh and therfore made out of him which must not be understood as if it were by the derivation of any materiall substance for so Christ in respect of his body is rather Bone of our Bone and Flesh of our Flesh but by the Effluxe and Communication of his Spirit For the Church is nothing else but Christus explicatus Christ dilated and explicated and therefore is sometimes called in the Scripture by the name of Christ Ecclesia est Christus saith Tertullian ergo cùm te ad fratrum genua protendis Christum contrectas Christum exoras illi cùm super te lachrymas agunt Christus patitur Christus Patrem deprecatur in his Booke De Poenitentia But further to confirm this that the Jewes had such a Tradition concerning this Mysticall Interpretation of that Story of Adam and Eve in Genesis I will produce another Testimony of some ancient Iewish Author recorded by Munster in his Commentary upon that Book that the making of Eve at first out of Adams side was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ad significandam sive notandam conjugem ADAMI SUPERIORIS qui est benedictus Which is the same that was intimated in the former Cabala according to the manner of the Orientall Nations that were wont to couch their greatest Mysteries and peeces of Wisdome which they conveyed by Tradition to one another in the Covert of some Fables And thence Pythagoras and Plato afterward brought that manner of Philosophizing into Europe But last of all for the fuller conviction of this Proposition which we have laid down that The Making of Eve out of Adam did type out something answerable in Christ and the Church it will not be amisse to consider what an elegant Parallel there is to that Type in the Antitype For just as Eve was made out of Adams side when he was asleep in Paradise so when Christ was sleeping the sleep of death upon the Crosse was his side likewise opened and out of it flowed forth Water and Blood one for the justification the other for the Sanctification of the Church or else as Saint Austine and others of the Fathers will have it the Types of the two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords Supper Whence is that of Saint Ierome in his Epistle Ad Pammachium Eva in typo Ecclesiae de Costa viri aedificata est And of Saint Austin in his second Book De Symb. Dormiat moriendo aperiatur ejus latus Ecclesia prodeat Virgo ut quomodo Eva facta est ex latere Adae dormientis ita Ecclesia facta sit ex latere Christi morientis in cruce pendentis and others of the Fathers so often alluded to this Notion that the School-men at last had got this pretty observation Ecclesia facta est de latere Christi dormientis in cruce Neither may it seem strange that we make Adam before the Fall to be thus a Type of Christ for if it were not too long here to discusse it might be easily proved that there were Types in Paradise Neither can I beleeve that the Tree of Life had in it a Naturall Power to preserve from death as Goropius Becanus perhaps might dreame but that it was a Typicall and Sacramentall thing the mystery whereof seems to be unfolded Rev. 22.2 where we have a description of another Paradise of which also to my apprehension the first Paradise it selfe was a Type For though I dare not confidently averre that which the Noble Picus took upon him to defend Si non peccasset Adam Deus fuisset incarnatus sed non crucifixus Although the ancient Jewes seeme to have beene of that opinion when among five