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when
ah fhadowes (hall
flee
,
when
all
of
us
fhall.be
brought
into
the
houfe
of
our
Lord,
and
be
with
him for ever
;
we
fee how-contra&ed
perfons
think
a
day
a
yeare till they each
enjoy the other the
fame
affr6tion fhould be in us
toward Chrift
Jefus.
The
fecond
thing to
be
noted, viZ. That
the Church belongethas
á
DoEL
wife
to none
bat Chrtff,
we
(hall
be
prefented
or
given
to
him.
What
are
Minifkers! nor
the bridegroome,but
his
friend,
not who
are fuirers
for
themfelves,but
fuch
asgoe betwixt Chrift
and his
Church; to
fit
her
a
virgin for
Chrift
their
Lord,
loh.3.39.
z
Cor.
i t.a.
The
whichdorh rebuke the infolency of the
Pope,
that
among o-
rfet
ther
titles
is
not afhamed
to
have this maintained ,
that
he
is
the
huf-
band
of
the
Church
:
But no confideration
doth
more
throw
downe
that
claime
of
his
to be
a
head, then this Chapter
:
For Chrift
is
fo a
head that he
is a
husband
:
now we know
that
a
husband -likeheadfhip
is
of
that nature
that
it
doth notbrooke partners, the husband cannot
have
deputies,or do
that which belongethto
him
by
proxy;
fie,it ftan-
dcth not with the chaftity
of
a
husband
to
depute another
for him
in
any
fort,
nor with the chaftity
of
a
woman
to
admit it
:
But
thus
to
plead
himfelfe corrivall with
Chrift,is
fit
forhim
that
li
tech
himfelfe
upabove
all
that
is
called
God.
3.
We fee
what
¿glorious
It
ate
is
re
ferved
for
us
inHeaven:
yet
it appea-
DQ
reth not
what
we
(hall
be,
but when
Chrift
appeareth, then wee
(hall
appeare
in
glory with him, Col.3.t.
loh.3.,.
A
Rate
of
perfect
glory
both
in foule
and body
:
In
foule
perfect
light,
flaming love joy un-
fpeakable;
In
body
fuch
glory, that the
face (hall fbine
as
the
Sun, the.
body
be
covered
as
it
were with
light,
it (hall
be
immortali,
fpirituall,
neither needing
meats
nor drinks,and
of
admirable agility,
even
able
ro
move
Whither
the
fpirit Both carry it:this
glory
is
kept
for
us
till we
(hall behand
-fait
to Chrift,
and
that
fitly
:
for looks
as
we put
off
our
hraverie
till
the wedding day, though they
willgoe
handfötne
,.
yet
the wedding
apparel( (hall
not come forth
till
then
:
fo
wee
though
Chrift
maketh
us
comely
,
yet
all
this
fumptuous attire
is
referved
till
the
wedding
of
the Lambe
is
to
be folemnized
;
then
wee
(hall
have
it as
a
piece
of
his
glory
,
that
then wee fhould bee ftatelyar-
rayed.
And this, that our fpotleffeholireffe
is
not attainedhere,doth teach
VJe
;.
us,
t.
To
decline fuch erroneous fpirits, as
would
have a glorious
Church
on earth,
fuch
as
were the
Donatifts,
as
are
the Anabaptifts,
and
in
part the Papiíts,
who
affirme
thus much
of
a
true beleever
baptized,that
he
is
without
fpot,and that there
is
nothing
in
him,which
may not indure triall, before
Gods
juftice,
nothing
that God
can
hate:
Now
what
Both
this, but before we come
to Chrift,
either by death
or otherwife,
make
a
perfoti
without fpot, contrary to
Scripture, as,
lfwe
(faith
fo
great
an
Apoftle, including himfelfe) fly
we
have
no
fin,
,,loh.s.à;
there
is
no
truth in
us.
In
which
place
they
Rieke as
in
pitch,
forfaying
is
not
onely fpeaking
with the tongue, but with the heart,
The
foie
bath
Paid
in
his
heart.
Andwhen the Scripture
affirmeth
the
naming
L113
of