Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,148	5	10.4023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51248	An heavenly wonder, or, A Christian cloath'd with Christ purposely penned to comfort Christs sin-sick-spouse / by Sam. Moore, minister of the gospel of God sometimes at Brides in Fleetstreete, London.	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1650 (1650)	Wing M2586A; ESTC R232290	37,531	104

in thy graces the ornaments I have given thee thou art comely through my comeliness Ezek. 16. 14. which I have put upon thee thou art my Spouse but I am thy beauty thine owne is not has lost its being Where 's roome for vaine boasting glorying in the flesh Vxor fulget radijs Mariti Velut inter Stellas Lund Minores the Spouse shines out indeed but 't is in the rich rayes of her husbands beauty Christs lustre shines out in Christians as the Moone among the lesser Stars and their glory 's but the sparklings forth of his spotlesse nature in them Christs beauty fils all the corners and concavities of the widest desires of soules Thou O Lord art Psal 3. 3. my glory said David the King we hold all things in Capite tenure from Christ thence let us take our name will you mind that satisfying saying that you may be filled Ephes 3. 19. with all the fulnesse of God filled with God a full expression with the fulnesse of God that 's more yet higher with all the fulnesse of God Beauty in God is the amenity and lovelinesse of his nature and all infinite perfections as they offer themselves to his owne understanding and to the understanding of men and Angels in their pleasantnesse and this even this is the All of a Christians beauty Is' t queri'd how this can be that Christ and Christians share in beauties We answer SECT 2. 'T Is 1. by regeneration and that into the union and samenesse of Christs nature the Spouse of the first Adam came from his owne side or loynes so did the wife of the second see how sweetely divine favours hang together the Father open'd his bosome and the Sonne open'd his side to make the chief of sinners the chiefe of Saints the Spouse opens too I opened to my beloved said she when once sweet Christ was opened in Pauls Ministery Acts 16. 14. Lydia's heart opened too that shee tooke in her husband and all his sayings there 's no love lost be twixt head and members you see Cor. 7. 1. We are made partakers of the divine nature he 's partaker of humane nature Christ and Christians are Co-partners in natures divine humane Such soules are truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 superterrestrial and the soul ●eb 2. 16. of such souls i. e. Christ their life is so too Christ matches with those of his owne Stocke and Tribe Husband and Spouse have but one and the same Father the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 1 Pet. 1. 3. Christ hath begotten us againe saith the Scriptures Christ's a Christians neer Kinsman yea brother as well as Husband goe tell my brethren I ascend to my Father and your John 20. 17. Father to my God and your God Sweete is the dew of such sweete lips which lips like Lillies drop Cant. 5. 13. such sweet smelling Myrrhe SECT 3. 2. BY Transnomination the change of their names To have a samenesse of name from the samenesse of nature with Christ beautifies believers bountifully When the match is made up between Christ and the soule that soule bears her Soveraign's name The Spouse of the first Adam and her husband had both one name God called their name Adam in Gen. 5. 2. the day that he made them so the Spouse of the second Adam in the change of her condition from a single to a married estate with Christ the Lamb had a change of her name the head is called Christ Cor. 12. 12. ●●put cor●●s unùs est ●hristus Aug. ●al 3. 16. ●rap in Locum ●cts 9. 4. ●salm 24. 6. Chron 22.9 ●iodate on ●ant 6. 13. ●insworth on ●●e same and the members are call'd Christ Why persecutest thou me i. e. mysticall Christ my body And God is called Jacob in the Psalmes Christ is Solomon in this sweet song in Hebrew Sholomoh of peace and his Church is called Shulamite by her Bride-groomes name and therfore the forming of the word is rather active then passive Christ and Christians are homonymon of the same name he 's call'd the fairest among men shee the fairest among ●sal 45. 2. ●ant 1. 8. 5. women Believers these are sweets we speake of Christ is called your fulness of his fulnesse have wee received and ye are called his ●ohn 1. 16. fulnesse his body is the fulnesse of ●phes 1. 23. him that filleth all in all 'T is one branch of the new Covenant that God would give his people a new Isa 62. 2. name yea a better name then is that of sonnes and daughters Beauty is a taking thing can doe much with Christ thou hast ravished my heart carryed snatch'd away my heart my Spouse and God will do much for his names sake 't is a coercive cogent argument which takes with God when nothing else wil Thou O Lord art in the middes of us Jer. 14.9 and we are called by thy name leave us not leave us not for thy names sake Christ and Christians are name-sakes have but one name SECT 4. 3. BY hereditation or birth-right Children of men are not all Heirs borne but all Gods Children are first-bornes great is the comfort of such every Spouse of Christ is a lawful borne Heir of all Christs Ornaments goodnesse they are heires heirs of God and joynt-heires with Christ words like Mountains of Pearles Christians Christs beauti 's your birth-right you 'r black but comely black in your selves but comely in Christ Loathsome in your selves but lovely in this Sonne of love and the life of your Lustre is laid up in him that when he appears you also may appear with him in glory A ●oloss 3. 4. believer my friends is very rich very honorable say he were a beggar on a dunghill for Christ's not poore and hee 's joynt-heire with Christ a Lazarus full of running sores and bowed to reception of reliefe from dogs and cloathing of Rags hee 's all 〈◊〉 ●till nor is his body like a Leopards that cannot change his skin Pearls are pearls though in midst of puddle The Father of Christ hath begotten his Spouse to an inheritance incorruptible and Pet. 1. 4. that fades not away in which place of Peter the Holy Ghost expresses their inheritance by two most fit words the one is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Flos qui nunquammarcescit dictus indè immortalis ab a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plin. lib. 21. cap. 11. the name of a precious Stone which though cast into fire and soyled cannot bee blemished but is the more brightened the other is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the name of a flower which Writers tell us may be kept continually fresh and greene all Saints are high born Children of a Princely seed bloud-royall they are Lords of the Higher Luke 22. 30. House divide the throne with Christ by birth-right they are Christs assessors fellow-Peers to judge the world with him yea to