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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	apostle_n	church_n	word_n	1,489	5	3.9514	3	false

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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

Scripture as this is In all which places and the like we must not conceive a Metaphore but a Mystery And perhaps Christ himselfe intimated this Mystery in his manner of Life and converse here upon earth For some * Divines have wittily conceived Lud●● Vives de Ve●it that amongst many other good reasons which may be given why Christ should live an Vnmarried Life this might be one also to shew that hee was Sponsus Ecclesiae The Spouse of the Church And I cannot here forget how elegantly this Notion was expressed by an Old Syriack Philosopher in an Enigmaticall Poeme De Sapientia Divina set out by Sionita in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Occurrit mihi in mundo Puella Aspectu bella Et Oculis splendida Et Vultu pulchra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgo Mater Adolescentula Et Vetula familià Admiranda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In eius facie depicta est Dies quae omnia illuminat Et Nox obscura suspensa est Crinibus eius In medio palpebrarum eius Occultantur Sol Luna Aer Etiam Elementa coram ea Exultant motu Circulari Thus farre he seems to describe the Church and afterwards to bring in Christ the Spouse in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vidi Iuvenem iucundum Diademate vinctum Eius Puellae quae me insanum reddit amore percitum Thus I have done with the first thing which I propounded That the Vnion of Man and wife is a Type whereof the Vnion of Christ and the Church is the Archetype I come to the second That the Making of Eve at first out of Adam and the Vniting of her againe to him which was the first Originall of Marriage was Typicall of Christ the Second Adam and his wife the Church And this I prove from the 30. and 31. verses where the Apostle useth those very words which were spoken of Eve in Genesis when she was made out of Adam concerning the Church and Christ For we are members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones For this cause shall a man leave his Father and Mother and be ioyned to his Wife and they two shall be one Flesh Where lest we should be mistaken as if these words of the latter verse were spoken onely of Man and Wife and did not allude to Christ and the Church as the Words going before did to which notwithstanding they were immediately subjoyned by Moses in Genesis he addeth This is a great Mystery but I speak all this while of Christ and the Church 'T is true the Apostle doth not here go about to prove that there was any such Mysticall meaning in that passage of Moses his story neither doth he bring it out as if it were a new thing to those converted Jewes to whom he wrote But as that which was well enough understood amongst them and therefore certainly they had some Cabala or received Tradition concerning such an interpretation of it Which that ingenuous Authour Petrus Cunaeus well observed De Rep. Heb. Lib. 3. Cap. 8. where having shewn that divers places of the Old Testament are expounded in the New according to some Cabala which they had concerning them he reckons up this amongst the rest Etiam in illis verbis quae extant in Capite secundo Geneseos agnoscimus Cabalam Quod enim ibi dicitur RELINQUET HOMO PATREM MATREMQUE ET ADHAEREBIT UXORI ex illo ignotum mortalibus Sacramentum revelat Apostolus in Capite quinto Epistolae ad Ephesios Mystertum hoc magnum est loquor autem de Christo de Ecclesia Now though it be not necessary that any Footsteps of this Cabala should be found in those Jewish writings which now we have for Cunaeus doth not go any further to shew us what it was yet we will endevour to make our best search and enquiry after it Moses Maymonides in his Moreh Nevochim lib. 2. cap. 30. speaking concerning the Story of Genesis and the first Creation after he had declared some more obvious things concerning it he comes to tell his Reader some Mysteries but so as that he would wave the interpretation of them lest he should be counted a betrayer of the Secrets of his Nation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quae tibi ex verbis Sapientum nostrorum propositurus sum sunt perfectissima ordinatissima ideò non diu immorabor in expositione illorum neque sensum ipsorum explicabo ne arcanorum fiam revelator The first of those Mysteries is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which Buxtorfius thought good to Latine thus though I thinke he do not exactly expresse the Authors sense Adam Eva creati fuerunt sicut Vnus tergis vel dorso conjuncti postea verò à Deo divisi fuerunt qui dimidiam illam partem accepit fuit Eva adducta fuit ad ipsum Animadverte quomodò explicetur quod fuerint certo respectu Duo certo respectu Vnum sicut dicitur Os ex ossibus meis Caro ex Carne mea quod fuerint certo respectu Duo id confirmatur ex eo quod dicitur Nomen Vnum AMBOBUS convenire Vocahitur Ishah Vira quia ex Ish Viro desumpta est quod fuerint UNUM id confirmatur eo quod dicitur Et adhaerebit VXORI suae erunt in Carnem unam But lest we should take all this meerly in a literall sense hee concludes it in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Quanta verò est ignorantia illius qui non intelligit haec secundùm aliquem Sensum occultum intelligenda esse This same Tradition whatsoever it mean I find divers others of their own Authors glancing at R. Simeon Ben Iochai in the Booke Zohar before commended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam Eva creabantur latere ad latus quaenam est ratio quòd non creabantur facie ad faciem R. Solomon and Aben-Ezra upon the second of Genesis and Elias Levita in Tishbi upon the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expresse it briefly thus out of Midrash Aggadah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. The first Adam was created with two faces and afterward God divided him into Man and Woman The same is likewise mentioned in Breshith Rabba and the Babylonish Talmud in the Booke Berachoth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Duas facies creavit Deus in Adamo primo sicut dicitur Ante retrò formasts me And Philo the Jew without question alludeth to it in his Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking concerning the Making of the Woman in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Quando verò facta est mulier videns homo cognatam speciem imaginem delectabatur spectaculo superveniens autem amor tanquam VNIUS ANIMALIS DUO SEGMENTA AB INVICEM DISTANTIA colligens in unum iterum compegit Here then wee have already found