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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20917	The union of Christ and the church, in a shadow by R.C.	Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.	1642 (1642)	Wing C7472; ESTC R22662	17,596	38

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