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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04831	The marriage of the lambe Or a treatise concerning the spirituall espousing of Christ, to a beleeving soule, wherein the subject is fully handled in the nature of it, in the effects, priviledges, symptomes, with the comforts that arise to a beleever from this relation, wherein also the excellencie of Christ, and many other spirituall truths flowing from the subject are by way discovered. By Benjamin King, minister of Gods Word at Flamsteed in Hartford-shire.	King, Benjamin, b. 1611 or 12.	1640 (1640)	STC 14963; ESTC S103355	46,240	182

should be a divorcement of all sinne to give entertainement to himselfe alone this is expressed by the Psalmist Psal 45.11.12 Hearken O daughter and consider incline thine eare forget also thine owne people and thy Fathers house So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty for he is thy Lord God and worship thou him Our Prophet v. 16. of this chapter shewes the truth of this that Christ in his love will permit no corrivall Thou shalt call me Ishi and call me no more Bauli Cornel. de Lap. in Hos 2.16 Par. in eundem locum why not Bauli as well as Ishi they signifying both the same thing sounding as much as my Lord my husband the reason was because Baal was the name of an Idoll now God doth so abhorre that an Idoll should have the least communication and corrivality with him that hee would not be called by the name of an Idoll so offensive is the very name of another lover unto him So Hosea 14.8 Ephraim being once espoused to God cryes out what have I to doe any more with Idols so the Apostle perswading the Romans to put on the Lord Iesus Christ hee bids them first to abjure surfetting and drunkennes chanbering and wantonnesse and so to put on the Lord Iesus Christ Consider the nature and essence of this spirituall marriage and the particulars wherein it doth consist which are three First in that neere and intimate conjunction that is betwixt Christ and every beleeving soule which is so great and intimate that Christ and a beleever are sayd to bee one Ephes 5.32 they two shall be one flesh this is a great mystery but I speake of Christ and his Church saith the Apostle Now this union is not a meere notionall and intellectuall union that consists only in the understanding and without the understanding is nothing nor yet a conjunction of affection onely as Ionathan and David are sayd to have one soule and heart but it is a true and reall union nor yet such a reall union as if there was an union of substance and person for so many beleevers there are so many distinct persons there are and all distinct from the person of Christ and his God-head which is incōmunicable but this union is a reall mysticall and spirituall union caused two wayes First in regard of Christ by his spirit Secondly in regard of us by a true vivificall and justifying faith First on Christs part by his Spirit for as in the members of the body they are all distinct amongst themselves and doe all differ from the head yet ab unâ eadémque formâ informante from one and the same soule informing the head and all the members all they are made one compositum So it is with Christ and beleevers beleevers are distinct persons and distinct from the person of Christ yet by one and the same Spirit abiding in Christ and beleevers they become one this the Apostle intimates 1 Cor. 6.17 He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit so Saint Iohn that Disciple that leaned on Christs breasts and thence suckt many a spiritual truth makes the participation of the Spirit an evidence of Christs abiding in beleevers and of their abiding in Christ 1 Iohn 3.24 Secondly this union is caused on beleevers part by the grace of faith so saith the Prophet I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulnesse some would have this word faithfulnesse referred to God and so to note the truth of Gods promise of espousing himselfe unto his Church but others better take this word faithfulnesse to note the grace of justifying faith for I finde the word here used in the originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be referred to the saving faith of the just Hab. 2.4 The just shall live by his owne faith so that the meaning of the Prophet in this place is this whereas verse 19. he saith in regard of God this espousing is in justice and mercy so on beleevers part it must bee in faith and obedience so that it is faith which is the applicatory instrument of this great benefit of this spirituall Marriage for God will so espouse himselfe in justice and mercy as that the beleever must receive this grace by faith This spirituall betrothing consists in that mutuall covenant that is made betwixt Christ and a beleever in the day of their espousalls Ezek. 16.8 I entred into covenant with thee saith the Lord and thou becamest mine which covenant is that Christ will bee to the soule a loving and carefull husband and the soule must be to Christ a morigerous and an obedient spouse this mutuall covenant the Apostle expresseth fully Ephes 5.24.25 Husbands love your wives as Christ loved his Church there is the covenant on Christs part Wives be subject to your husbands as the Church is subject unto Christ there is the covenant on the beleevers part this covenant is expressed by this Prophet verse last I will be your God and ye my people It consists in that reciprocall interest that Christ claimes in a beleever and a beleever in Christ Cant. 2.16 My beloved is mine and I am his my beloved is mine there is the beleevers interest in Christ and I am his there is Christs interest in a beleever A beleever doth not by faith so lay hold on Christ as a man with his hand layes hold on a Pillar or tree for a man may lay hold on a tree and the tree never lay hold on him againe but he layes hold on Christ so by faith that by the same act of faith he is apprehended by Christ againe this the Apostle intimates Phil●p 3.13 I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Iesus here is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an apprehending and a being apprehended of Christ and therefore this mutuall apprehending of a beleever by Christ and of Christ by a beleever is lively expressed by the metaphor of kissing and saluting Cant. 1.2 Let him kisse me with the kisses of his lippes here the Church would have Christ to kisse her Psal 2. ult Kisse the Sonne here Christ desires a kisse of his Church in this saluting and kissing there is a mutuall embracing and touching of one another this expresseth the manner of the worke of faith in apprehending Christ for by faith the soule so embraceth Christ that by the same Act of faith it is embraced by Christ againe this is that mutuall interest as the beleeving soule challengeth Christ to be its Bridsgroome so it gives Christ an interest in it selfe to bee his faithfull and obedient spouse and this distinguisheth the fals spouse of Christ from the true spouse there is never an hypocrite and nominall Christian that hath no more of Christianity than the outside and title but he will be ready to claime interest in Christ crying I hope in my God my Christ my Jesus but the question is whether Christ hath interest in him if