~~-~-I _ Jam~~ ~~lo"Pe~_s, ____ SaR.XIX.. ' Chrill:s love mull: be there firfr, I Am my Belo- -~ \veds. How we &or~e How ar~ we Chrill:s Beloved <? we are his, t /1 h: ar.J are 111 firft of all by his Fathers gift · for God in his Cbrift beloved. • , • 1 • j et.ernallp~r~ofegave htmfor us> and g1ves us to B.y hu Fatl:ers \ htm, as. It ts tn the excellent prayer,Jahn 17. Fa– gift, ther thme they were and thou gavdl: themm~. I had not them of my felfe firfr, but thine they were before all worlds were, thou gavcft them me to redeeme them,and my Commiffion doth not extend beyond thy gift ~ I die for all thofe that thougave£1: me., I fanClifio my felfe for them that they may be fapaified: fo we are Chrifis in his Fathers gifc ; but that is not all, though it be the chiefe fundamentall principall ground of all. B ~; . For we are his Iikewife by Redemption,Chrifi ~ Reuemptron k h h ., h d. L. too e our nature, t at em1g t 1~ 10r us to ~urchafe·us. We coO: him deare, weareabloudy SpoufetoChrifi,<l:' that froward womanwrong~ Jbod,4•2.5'• , fully faid to Mofes, thou art a bloudy husband unto me:fo Chri£1: may without wrong fay to the Church, thou artaSpoufeofbloud to me. We were indeed to b~ his Spoufe ; but firll: he mufi win usby conquefi in regarciof Satan, and then - fatisfie jufiice,we were in fuch debt by fin,lying under Gods wrath, fo as till all debts were paid, we could not in the way of jufiice begiver) as a Spoufe to Chrilt. - 3· Nor is this aiJ, but we are Chrifis by MarByMal·riage. riage alfo, for when he purchafed us, and paid fodeare for us ; when he diedand fatisficddi.. vine l
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