E p H E s. ) • 30, 3 I' ;p. becaufe he dreamed one thing, and another tliing was intended by it. SoAdam's Marriage is called a :Myjlery; why? Becaufe the Story of it is one thing it is the Story of the Marriage of the fir(( Man, and his Wife; but the,Secre;, the thing intended by it is another : I JPeak._ (faith he) concerning Chrijl and /Jis Church. And fo now the meaning of the Words which the Apome ufeth, is briefly this ; I fay, faith he, that is, I make this Interpretation of it, (and he wasthe firfi: that did open the Myflery of it) I tell you a .JI1Jftery, (as elfewhere he faith) that' which you have not known, I now hold forth to you. You read the Story of Gcnejs meer!y of Adam and Eve, but there was a further Myflery in it : Thi~ that I have (aid of leaving Father and Mother, of being Bone of his Bone, and Flej/J of his Flefo, ( fo you read the Wife is of the Hufband, in Gen. 2. ) this, I my, (faith he) belongeth Eis xv;-ov, ( fo it isin the Original) it is to beapplied only to Chrifi:, I fpeak it of him, and I apply it unto him, as the Matter fignified thereby. And then if you mark it, in the lafl Verfe of this Ephef. 5· he rnith, Neverthelefl, let every one of you in partiCIIlar fo lvve his Wift, e'ven izs himfelf; and the Wift fee that jbe reverence her Husband, His meaning is this, I would have you take the place literally notwithll:anding, do not think this is all tpe meaning of it; there ll:illlies.a literal Duty upon you, tho there is a myfi:ical Sencc in the thing. And fo much now for the opening of the Text it fel£ I !hall now come to !hew wherein this Type lay, and compare Adam's Marriage,. wiih the Mar– riage of Jefus Chrill: and his Church myll:ically intended by it. There is a great Q!)efi:ion among Interpreters, Whether every Marriage, a~ well as that of Adam's, was intended as a Type of Chrifl ? I will not £land to decide that, I will only handle and !hew, how Adam's Marriage was ; that [ This is agreat .J11yflery] pointeth to him, to that Marriage of his. Adamdid not underftand it, when he (aid, This is Bone of my Bone, &c. .And for this caufe, &c. As Caiapha<, in 'jobn I I. 51. did not underfi:and, when he . prophe– fied, that Chrifi: !hould be put todeath. Thofe words in Gen. 2. Fi>r this caufe ·foa/1-a Man leave Father and Mother, &c. they are made the words of God, and not of .Adam; for God intended Jefus Chrifi: by it, as the ApoCtle here cloth, But to come to the Particulars wherein the Type ho1ds, I !hall refolve it into four Heads. J. Let us confider theCounfei that God had about Adant's Marriage with Eve, and it was the Type of the Counfel of God about Chrifi:'s Marriage with his Church ; and this is a great Myftery, even the Counfel that God held in his eternal Decrees, concerning Chrifi: and his Church, !hadciwed out by what he here (peaks of the marrying of Eve to .Adam. . . : I. The Lord made .Adam, before he thought of a Wife for him\ and fo in order of God's Decrees, Chrift was fet up firfi:, who therefore is called,. the Firjlborn.of every Creature, Col. i. r 5· and the Firft-born an1ong many 'Brethren, Ro111. 8. 29. who iscalled the Head; and therefore was fet up firft. Now wheq God had made .Adam, and made him firft, what is the Counfel of God ?bout him? Read Gen. 2. 18. And the Lord foid, It is not good that the Man fbould be alone, I willmaA§ him an Help i;mt for him. So did God fay of the Man Chrift. Jefm, when he had ordained him in his eterrial Purpiife, It is not good for him to.be alone, he !hall have Fellows, as the Saints are called in 'Pfol. 45· 7· God intended, and faid with himfelf, he !hall not be in Heaven alone. You have the Scripture [peaking in the very lame Language, in ] oh11 I 2. 24. Except .a Coin of Wheat foil into theGro1111d, and die, (Chrift therefpcaksthisof himCelf) it abi, deth alone: I muft not be alone, faith he, I muft have company with me.. And tho he fpe:iks .this in relation to his Death, yet it was God's primitive Decree that Chrift !h<iuld not be alone; and becaufe it was fo, ,therefore ~ecaufe Maq fell, and could not otherwife be Caved, and brought to ~eaven, but by Chrift's Deitb,thercfore(faith he)I muft die,thati may not beinHea~en alone; otherwife t muff 55
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