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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89273	Fornication condemned, in a double sentence, commending marriage, condemning whoredom [brace] in all, or, A brief consideration of Heb. 13. 4	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1667 (1667)	Wing M2601A; ESTC R42315	77,906	108

and so in a great sort between Christ and every believing soul Which also was typified by Gods espousing and marrying the whole house of Judah and Israel to himself as to their own one husband and their becoming his after a peculiar sort above all people Jer. 2. 2. and 31. 32. Ezek. 16. 8 c. Isai 5. This gracious and spiritual Marriage as also that type and figure of it now mentioned was is more especially and frequently resembled by the natural and earthly marriage see an instance or two Ephes 5. 23-32 The Apostle first instructing wives to be subject to their own husbands as the Church is to Christ gives this reason that the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church And then instructing husbands to love their wives even as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it yea to love and cherish her as his own flesh even as the Lord the Church and thereto shewing that a mans wife is one body one flesh with himself And that for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife He addes that this is a great mystery but I speak says he concerning Christ and the Church that is it is not so great a mystery in it self but as it resembles the union and marriage between Christ and the Church Therefore elsewhere he saith that as he that is joyned to a woman is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh so he that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit And therefore admonisheth to flee fornication as well because marriage is so honourable in the thing resembled by it as also because in being joyned to the Lord they are made one spirit with him and so one body in the unity of the Spirit therefore not to defile his body his temple by taking the members of Christ and making them the members of an harlot See 1 Cor. 6. 15-19 whence also he warneth of spiritual fornication for says he I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you a chaste virgia to Christ 2 Cor. 11. 2. Yea that earthly marriages according to Gods institution of them from the beginning are ordained for a signe and resemblance of this heavenly and spiritual marriage and therefore honourable in all appears by the holy Ghosts making use of them and the obligations of them and loves pertaining to them occasionally to set before us this heavenly and spiritual marriage and the things pertaining thereto See Psal 45. tot thence intituled A song of loves and the whole book of Canticles Yea to set before us that forementioned type of this and therein also the thing it self and the evil of spiritual fornication by the evil and shamefulness of a wife's dealing treacherously with her husband See the fore-cited Scriptures Isai 5. 1 c. Jer. 2 3 chapters Ezek. 16. tot with Hos 1 2 3 chapters And indeed all spiritual fornication and treacherous dealing of that kinde is and always was found on the womans part that is on the Churches part not on Gods and Christs part who is the head and husband in him is no iniquity he hates such treachery and putting away as we shall after further shew And this was spoken to them as well as many other things by ensamples or types which are also written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 106. 11. Heb. 8. 9. 10. III. That glorious marriage in which this between Christ and the Church now spiritually begun shall be compleatly finished between him and them in their souls and bodies re-united in which their vile body shall be fashioned into the likeness of his glorious body and they glorified together with him And in which Jerusalem shall be gloriously married even their land shall be married and the seed and off-spring that shall then be reserved and brought forth out of them shall be married to him and therein also to them the children of the first resurrection and that according to such a Covenant and in such manner as they never before were married At which Marriage and on that mountain the Lord will make to all people a glorious feast See Isai 25. 6 c. They are pronounced blessed that shall be called unto this Marriage-supper of the Lamb to sit down with him then when the Bride the Lambs wife hath made her self ready even as they are pronounced bless●d and holy that have part in the first resurrection for on such the second death shall have no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years Rev. 19. 7 8. 9. and 20. 6. with Matth. 25. 10. Luke 22. 28 29 30. This is that resembled by natural or earthly Marriages in the prophecie of it Isa 62. 4 5. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken nor thy land desolate but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah and thy land Beulah for the Lord delighteth in thee and thy land shall be married for as a young man marrieth a virgin shall thy sons marry thee and as the bridegroom rejoyceth over the bride so shall thy God rejoyce over thee See also Jer. 31. 31 32 c. Hos 2. 19 20. Thus and for these honourable ends and purposes Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled In all namely in all men or persons of mankinde male and female whether believers or unbelievers whether rich or poor and of what order rank degree or place soever they be in the Church or out of it So that whosoever desire it being such as are fit for it and may be joyned together according to that Covenant in its primitive institution they may marry with Gods allowance Though believers are admonished not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers and so to marry onely in the Lord yet the ignorant prophane and unbelievers are nowhere forbidden of God to marry but that is allowed them and made clean comely and honourable for their enjoyment and use as one of those demonstrations of his goodness towards them by which he is leading them to repentance Which leads us to the third Consideration namely 3. What it is that makes Marriage in such wise honourable in all and the bed undefiled and by what means it becomes so to us To which I say 1. God hath dignified it and made it honourable for all mankinde in the first man Adam by making him at the beginning male and female and first the man one man and then the woman of the man one woman and by giving them one to another as meet helps and companions as aforesaid and so making them twain two of one to be one flesh one body upon their acceptation and mutual consent in his presence and giving this instruction thereupon which being spoken by Adam in his innocencie is mentioned by the Wisdom of God as Gods saying For this cause shall a man