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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

pleasure to bee found than in the sweetest God and in his service this mystery cannot enter into the heart of a naturall-man that there should be such pleasure in the wayes of God Tam amant legem quam homicida carcerem who ordinarily loves the house of God and the Lawes of God as a Murtherer doth the prison as Luther was wont to say a naturall man findes no more sweetenesse in Christ and his wayes than there is taste in the white of an egge Iob 6.6 or than Barzillai found in the meate that King David would have given him to eate 2 Sam. 19.35 but the Spouse of Christ having had a taste of Gods goodnesse and an experimentall rellish of the wayes of God and the pleasures thereof affirmes of Gods service in generall as David did of his service in Gods house One day in Gods Courts are better than a thousand So that as Christ sayd to his Disciples he had bread they knew not of which was to doe the will of his Father in heaven the like may a beleever say to a worldly and sinnefull man hee hath meate and drinke pleasure and recreation that they know not of neither did ever taste which is to doe the will and walke in the pathes of Christ his Lord and husband A seventh secret is a taste of the joy of heaven as the wicked taste of hell before they come into the locall place thereof by most dreadfull horrors of Conscience which are as flashes of that inconceiveably tormenting fire of the Tophet that is prepared for the devill and his angells so the godly many times have a taste of that inutterable and infinitly delightfull joy in heaven before they take ful possession thereof the spies that went into Canaan brought backe with them some clusters of Grapes to shew the fruitfulnesse of the land Christ in like manner gives the soule some clusters of Grapes some taste of that goodnesse of Canaan above that his Spouse feeling the delight of that Country may not desire any continuing City here but looke for one that is above this taste of heaven sometimes God hath given to his Saints in an extraordinary manner as he did to Paul in his rapture into the third heaven unto Steven when the heavens were opened and he saw the Sonne of God standing on the right hand of his Father which extraordinary revelations with all other Euthusiasmes Anabaptisticall dreames and fancies God communicates not to his Saints in this latter age of the world therefore a second and ordinary way wherby God shewes the soule a sight of heaven and a taste of the pleasure thereof is by the eye of faith by the assurance of Salvation by the witnesse of the Spirit with our owne Spirit by giving the soule such an inward sense and feeling of his favour and such a stedfast hope upon solide grounds of heaven by beginning heavenly Musique by of a good conscience and by raising up the soule by the unspeakable peace of God and joy of the Holy-ghost by these and the like meanes doth God give the soule a taste of heaven and as Moses upon Pisgah saw Canaan so in these as upon Pisgah doth Christ carry his Spouse to see Canaan that is above the joynture that he will install his spouse into The second consequent on Christs part The second consequent on Christs part is a communication of goods as a man by his marriage endues his wife with all his worldly goods so Christ endues his spouse with his goods All things are common saith the (a) Anima quae diligit Deum sponsa vocatur haec enim duo nomina sponsa sponsus maximè in●icant internos affectus hic enim omnia communia sunt una haereditas una domus una mensa unus lectus una caro Bern serm 7. in Cantio Father betwixt man and wife one inheritance one house one Table one bed one flesh the goods that Christ communicates to his Spouse are of three sorts First externall there is communication of outward comforts so farre forth as shall conduce to his owne glory and the good of his spouse Hosea 2.21 In that day to wit of his marriage with his people I will heare the heavens the heavens shall heare the earth the earth shall heare the corne wine and oyle and they shall heare Israel and the Apostle speaking of the beleeving Corinthians to whom Christ was espoused tells them 1 Cor. 2.21 All things were theirs Paul Apollos things present and to come the ground of this was because they were Christs and Christ Gods Secondly internall In Christ to his Spouse there is a communication of grace Iohn 1.16 Of his fulnesse we receive grace for grace in Christ there is a fulnesse of grace there is not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sufficiencie but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a redundancie of grace as Plato distinguisheth In Christ there is not onely the fulnesse of a vessell that may be full in it selfe but if it part with any liquor to other vessels it s owne proper fulnesse is diminished but also there is a fulnesse of a fountaine that is not onely full in it selfe and for it selfe but it can communicate to others in its fulnesse without diminution of its owne proper fulnesse this kind of fulnesse is in Christ the fountaine of grace and inexhastible wel-spring of Life this fulnesse of grace in Christ was that oyle wherewith hee is said to be annointed above his fellowes and not by measure for that oyle was not any typicall and Sacramentall oyle wherewith the Priests Prophets and Kings were annointed in the Old Testament but the Spirituall oyle of Gods grace called the oyle of gladnesse which oyle was powred on Christs head in so plentifull a manner that like the oyntment powred on Aarons head it went downe to the skirts of his garment Psal 133.2 so this oyle of Gods grace powred on Christ the head of his spouse distils into the skirts of his garment into his meanest member so that there is no humility meekenesse patience love heavenly mindednesse nor any other grace in Christ but some influence of that grace distils into the heart of every one espoused unto him hence the Apostle affirmes 2 Cor. 9.8 that God is so full of grace and hath such a sufficiencie that is fulnesse to others in the originall the Apostle emphatically expresseth this by triplicating the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 9.8 opened First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in one but in every necessitie Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not sometimes but at every time Thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not some sufficiencie but a sufficiencie of every grace Eternall In Christ there is a communication of glory to his spouse Christ will have no glory in heaven but in part and so far forth as his spouse is capable of he will (b) Anina quae nunc pannoso vestitu ac servili habitu regi putatur in regno