Qiueftions, andCafes ofConfluence 4. Their Lawes are Spirituali , reaching the Confcience as well as the outward man , moft perfea, never changed, nor abrogated as 'fleas be. mies be : their Captain was never foiled, nor can be , 5. Their war and weapons are not carnal(, but Spititual, as d th their erefore chiefeft they ene- an are fure ofvictory befo-e they (lrike a blow : and as for their corporal enemies , they overcome them , non feriendo fed ferendo not by ftrik(ng but fuf- ring. 4. Their Language is that of Canaan : their Speech thews them to be Citizens of Heaven therefore called a people of a Chap. 30 ; pure language, &c. Zeph. 3.9 7. Their garments are deviled, and put on by God himfelf, even the garments of innocency, long robes dyed in the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7. 14. 8. Their diet fpringeih not out of the Earth , but defcends from Heaven : Je- fus Chrift, the breadof Itfe, &c. ofwhom,whofoever feeds fha1( continue to eter- nal life. Queft. why is the Church compared to a woman, Rev.I 2. r ? Anfw. Firs, as limply contidered in her fclf : and that for three eau- fes. a.. Becaufe to the Woman was firft made the promife of theblelfed feed that fhould break the Serpents head, and its (lilt made good to the Church un- der the fame fimilitude for to her all the promifes of God doe properly belong. 2. Becaufe the is feeble, and weakas a woman without her Husband, job. 15. f. 3. Becaufe the is a pure, and chaff virgin, not defiled with Idolatry,as the Ro- mifh (trumpet is, 2Cor. it. 2. Secondly, As fhe fluids in relation to others, and that r. ToGod, and in this relation the is the daughter of God, Cant,'. I. Pfal. 45. IC)* 2. To Chrift, in which relation file is the Spoufe ofChrift. a. Contracted to him inhis Incarnation : So Cant. 4. to. a. Married to him as his Bride , and taken home in his fecond coining to dwell with him for ever. 3. To Chridians, and in this relation fhe is their Mother. For a woman through the company ofher husband, brings forth children : So the Church by her conjunction with Chrift, and the power ofhis word, brings forth, nurceth , and brings up many children to God. Quell. what duties Both this relation of a Spoufe to Chrift teach her ? Anfw. Firfl, to cleave to her husband. For Cod feeing that it was not good for Adam tobe alone, he made the womanof his rib, beingcall intoa fleep, and brought, and married her unto him, faying,for this caufe (hall a man leave Fa- ther and Mother, and cleave to hie wife, &c. Gen. 2.24. SoGod feeing, afterthe fall, that it was much lefs good for man tobe alone, he inflitutes a fecond mar- riagewith the fecondAdam, whom he calls afleep by death, and brings his Spode outof his fidepierced, and marries theChurch to him, that renouncing all Lovesand Loversbut him , fhe might cleave undevidedly to him, and this the mutt doe foure wayes. t. Inperfon : For as the wife delivers up her perfon to her husband alone :So Believers mutt deliver uptheir fouls, and bodies to Jefus Chrift. For a Cer. 6. 19,20. we areno loner our own,&c. a. A faithful' Spoufe is married but to one man, 2 Cor. II. 2. so the Church.' 3. Chrift
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