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A01889	Spiritual marriage: or, The vnion betweene Christ and his Church As it was delivered in a sermon at Westminster, the first of Ianuarie. Anno Dom. 1626. By Iames Baillie, Master of Arts.	Baillie, James, Master of Arts.	1627 (1627)	STC 1203; ESTC S120307	33,214	58

and rescinde the sentence of LIGARIVS after that hee was condemned But when a Minister of Gods word a faithfull Pastor must discharge his commission vnto his Flocke what Rhetorick shall make them beleeue that life flowed from the Crosse of CHRIST that deaths Empire by death was subdued that the eternall word covered with flesh beaten with fists nailed to the Crosse did beare our sinnes die rise againe that we by this benefit shall triumph ouer death and by marriage be vnited vnto him Here all humaine reason and adminicles of art though thundered out by a Pericles must be abstained from Here all pompe in preaching and sophistick ostentation must giue place to the efficatious Pastor whose sermon is replenished with substance matter and the riches of the Spirit which by Saint PAVL is called 2. Tim. 1.13 Verae doctrinae hypotyposis The true patterne of wholsome words Secondly good reader albeit it be barren of humaine eloquence yet feare not to read it for it may be plentifull in substance and if thou thinkest that J haue stayed too much vpon the two first similitudes J thinke so with thee myselfe Et habes confitentem reum yee I pray thee to pardon mee seeing it is for thy instruction and discouering of much obstruce and excellent Theologie by which I hope and J wish it from my heart that thou shalt be bettered and so expecting thy friendly censure J take my leaue Farewell Thine in Christ to bee commanded James Baillie SPIRITVALL MARRIAGE OR THE VNION BEtweene CHRIST and his CHVRCH HOSEA 2.19 J will marrie thee to me for euer yea I will marrie thee to me PLATO Philosophizing vpon the grace of GOD Because he was an heathen Philosopher according as hee was able gaue thankes vnto him for three thinges First that GOD had created him a Man and not a Beast secondly that hee was borne a Grecian and not a Barbarian Thirdly that not only so but a Philosopher also But wee that are instructed at a better schoole doe otherwayes destribute our thanksgiving and praise him for three things also First that amongst all his creatures hee hath made vs men created in a most glorious manner Omnino ad imaginem suam altogether after his owne Image Secondly that from among all sorts of men he hath made vs Christians Thirdly that amongst those that beare the name of Christians hee hath made vs onely faithfull ones elected and adopted vs in his owne Sonne before the foundation of the world 2. Tim. 1.9 and made vs like a few well sighted among a throng of blind men like the portion of IACOB in Aegipt Exod. 10.22 onelie enlightened in the middest of that darkenesse which couered all the Countrie Iudg. 6.38 like the fleece of Gideon onelie watered with the dewe of his grace whilest all the rest of the earth is drie and destitute of his fauour When I call to memory the vnspeakeable loue of GOD and his fatherly care in the conduct and conseruation of his Church it is a whole web of wonders Gen 4.11 How he hath reuenged the blood of ABELL how he hath serued for a pilot and steersman to his Church inclosed within the arke Gen. 7. how for the loue of ABRAHAM and ISAACK he hath striken and curbed Kings Gen. 12.17 how he hath prepared lodging for his people in Aegipt Gen. 48.11 how he hath drawne them from thence with a mighty hand and outstretched arme hauing caried his people out of captiuitie as vpon Eagles winges Exod 14.28 how he hath giuen them his law Exod. 20. fed them with bread from heauen Exod. 16.15 couered them in the day time giuen them light in the night and driuen out Nations before them how he hath chastized them to keepe them vnder subjection in prosperitie and how his chastisements haue euer beene interlaced with deliuerances least they should haue beene ouerwhelmed with too great adversitie The historie of the Iudges of DAVID and his successors the deliuerance from Babilon and the re-establishment of Ierusalem Is not this a whole chaine of GODS mercies and loue towards his Church linked together already and yet to make it not onely more weightie but weight it selfe hee joyneth this linke vnto it I will marrie thee to me for euer yea I will marrie thee vnto me And this last linke is that which I intend to bestow vpon you this morning for a New yeeres gift Mos vetus est Iani dare mutua dona calendis Annus vt auspicio prosperiore fluat It is an ancient custome among friends vpon New yeeres day mutually to giue and to receiue gifts as fortunate pledges of a hopefull yeere saith a Poet Buchan which commonly are of siluer gold and of precious stones But as Saint Peter Acts. 3.6 said of old to the Creeple that lay at the gate of the Temple called beautifull siluer and gold haue I none to giue vnto you Act. ● 6 so say I now vnto you for I will bestow no such ware vpon you those are but drosse and earth and of a rusty and an earthly worth but such as I haue I will bestow vpon you a Spirituall gift most liberally And if you shall but gratefully receiue it and lay it vp close in the most inward cabine of your hearts I dare bee bold to promise that one day it shall be helpfull vnto you minister vnto you more joy and comfort then all the siluer gold and precious stones which are brought from the Orient And so I come to the bestowing of it I meane to the handling of my text I will marrie thee to mee for euer yea I will marrie thee vnto me This text is a promise of comfort in which you shall take notice of these foure First of the subiect CHRIST lurking vnder his word I secondly of the object the Church sheltred vnder this word thee Thirdly of the thing promised Marriage I will marrie thee Fourthly of the qualities of this marriage which are two First the certaintie implyed in the gemination and doubling of the promise I will marrie thee yea I will marrie thee Lastly the perpetuitie of this marriage for ever I will marrie thee vnto mee for ever This Proposition is first propounded I will marrie thee and hereafter explained by a twofold distinction first not to a base not to a dishonorable match but to my selfe that am Gnamith IEHOVAH Esay 9. equall to IEHOVAH * the Father of Eternitie who made the earth and spred the heavens like a curtaine Psal 104. the eternall Wisedome the essentiall Word the second person of the holy Trinitie GOD euerlastingly blessed Secondly not for a day a moneth or a yeere but perpetually for euer and so haue you the parts and circumstances of this Proposition neither minde I to handle them seuerally and alone but joyntly and together because in them joyntly is onely contayned that most admirable conjunction and most strait vnion betweene CHRIST and his

and wife are so firmly conjoyned by God that none ought to presume to sunder them so wonderfully coupled together that of two which they were before now they become but one It was already a great loue of the Lord to haue created all things for man to haue made him Lord of them and established him over the workes of his hands DAVID in the 8. Psal rauished with this contemplation breaketh out in admiration Alas what is man that thou are mindefull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him DAVID admired Gods liberality toward man in the creation but how much more ought we to admire his liberalitie his incomprehensible bountifulnesse and loue toward vs in our redemption wherein he not onely giueth vs his good things But bestowes his onely begotten sonne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that welbeloued sonne in marriage on vs and in him giueth vnto vs himselfe too DAVID admireth the contemplation of the heauens But how much more ought we to admire the possession of the heauens DAVID glorifies God for the domination which he giues vs over the creatures in the earth But how much more ought wee to glorifie God for our marriage and vnion with CHRIST by which we shall reigne continually with the Angels in heauen A marriage I say the bond whereof is the spirit of God whose trothpligth is performed heere in the militant Church But the nuptiall feast shal be hence in the tryumphant Church where our meat shall be the Tree of life our drinke the Water of life our musicke the song of the Saints Halleluiah halleluiah honour praise and dominion bee to him that sitteth vpon the Throne It is an ancient saying Omnis comparatio cl●●dicat vno pede euery comparison is lame of some one or other foot But this comparison of Marriage doth so fully set forth so richly expresse our Spirituall marriage our conjunction with CHRIST that if any it goeth vpright and straight in all the feete which you shall quickly perceiue by taking notice of these sixe things which are required in euery lawfull Marriage First that there must be male and female Six Circumstances necessary in euery Marriage Man and Woman and this may bee called conformitie of natures 2. The Marriage must be propounded 3. The future Spouse must be courted and wooed 4. There must be mutuall gifts between the two louers 5. There must bee a Matrinoniall written and sealed 6. There must be Procreation of children all which wee shall finde in this Spirituall marriage but in a more excellent manner As to this word must so often repeated which importeth a necessitie remember that there is a twofold necessitie A twofold necessity an absolute necessitie and an hypothetike the absolute is when a thing is so necessarie that it cannot be otherwayes Which Circumstances are absolutely necessary and which hypothetikely the hyphothetike when a thing is so necessarie that it may bee otherwayes but is onely profitable decent and comely that it should be so So some of these circumstances are of an absolute necessitie without which a marriage cannot be as conformitie of natures others againe only of an hypothetike necessitie and of a decent expedencie but not absolutely necessarie as giuing of mutuall gifts writing and sealing of a matrimoniall contract or the like The Church represented by a Woman two manner of waies But I returne to the purpose thus being premitted and findes that in this spirituall Marriage there are male and female man and woman for the Church is very often in Scripture represented by a woman in the 4. to the Gal. 22. The Apostle though obscurely represents the true Church vnder the type of a woman SARAH ABRAHAM had two sonnes one by a free woman and was borne by Promise But St. IOHN Reu. 12.1 More clearely and in a more glorious manner too And there appeared a great wonder in heauen a woman clothed with the Sunne and the Moone was vnder her feete and vpon her head had a Crowne of twelue starres Now to make vp this perfect conformitie of natures our bridgroome CHRIST IESVS euen as the Sun went out of the chamber of the highest heavens from the bosom of the Father the invisibilitie of the Divinitie The word is made flesh Gal. 4.4 desended downe to the earth and in the fulnesse of time taketh our nature vpon him becommeth man and was like vnto man in all things sinne onely excepted The benefit wee haue by his conformitie of nature and so you haue Conformitie of natures betweene CHRIST and his Church and by it wee haue this benefit that CHRIST of one which he was before becomes now vnto vs three first our Father in regard of our regeneration which is a new creation a creation of new hearts within our breasts and of cleane spirits within our bowels Secondly our Brother in respect of our adoption Ephes 2. without which we were but filij Irae the children of wrath prodigals banished out of our fathers house but now by our adoption wee may eate of the childrens bread and with boldnes cry Abba father vnto God the father of our Lord IESVS CHRIST and acknowledge IESVS CHRIST his sonne to be our elder brother Thirdly our husband in respect that he hath married vs in righteousnesse in iudgement in wisedome in mercy and in compassion Hos 2. Secondly The 2. Circumstance it is a custome that Marriage is propounded and is it laudable men ordinarily conforme to their qualitie and order send their most trusty freinds to deale in this busines Kings their Ambassadors of their greatest wisest and fittest of their Nobilitie to doe honour to the action This spirituall Marriage propounded in the most honourable forme for foure respects but neuer was there any marriage either by King or Emperour propounded so honourably as this Spirituall marriage and that in foure respects First in respect of the propounder God himselfe Secondly in regard of the parties or persons betweene whom it was propounded which is CHRIST and his Church Thirdly in regard of the persons to whom it was propounded to ADAM and EVAH the onely rulers and swayers of the Scepter of the whole worlds Empire and whose posteritie is now propagated in innumerable honorable Families and Princely diadems vpon the face of the earth Fourthly in regard of the place where it was propounded Paradise The seed of the woman shall breake downe the head of the Serpent Gen. 3.15 reiterated to ABRAHAM ISAAC and IACOB to all the Patriarchs and in all ages by the Prophets and here in my text by our HOSEA as plainly and more plainly then by any of them I will marrie thee vnto mee for ever The 3. Circumstance Christ courteth his loue Thirdly the King of Kings and Lord of Lords courteth wooeth and in a most louing manner declareth his spirituall affection to his future spouse in his letters and longs more then sweet penned by the direction of his