Christ being our Husband, his Righteousness is ours; 1the Law cannot take hold of us, our Husband must be responsible for our faults: But this is a very hard Law (saith the Author) and the Husband in a very ill case: In truth our Husband, though the eternal Son of God, was made under the Law, wounded, bruised, cast into a bloody sweat, made a curse; and (as the Septuagint hath it, Isai. 55.3.) he was [Greek or Hebrew], a man set in the stroke of Gods wrath: But all this he was, not by chance or fortune, but out of choice and unparalleled Love to his Spouse: The essentials of Marriage lie in a narrow room, a consent per verba de praesenti does it; but the just necessary consequents of it, are, as the Civilians tells us, Consortium omnis vitae, ⟨p. 403⟩divini & humani juris communicatio; the Wife participates of his sacred and civil good things; neither can it be otherwise, where there is, as there is in Marriage, such an intimate union of minds and bodies; there must needs be a communio bonorum, nature and reason tells us; that the Wife in so near an union must have [Greek or Hebrew], alimentum & indumentum, food and raiment, out of the Husbands estate; Nay, and all things in a decorum thereunto; and can we think that Christ should do less for his Spouse, when her necessities exceed all those in nature? Will he, who infinitely transcends all humane Relations, leave his Spouse to the rags of her own Righteousness, or suffer her to perish in an eternal prison for debt; and that, when he hath fulfilled the Righteousness, and bore the curse of the Law on purpose to cloth her, and satisfy for her? The whole Book of Canticles is a divine Ditty; which, under the parable of Marriage, streams all along, as a full torrent of Spiritual Love interchangeably passing between Christ and his Church: Well might the Doctor bring his proof from thence: Christ calls his Spouse all fair, and without spot, Cant. 4.7. She was not so ⟨p. 404⟩naturally, but by Marriage; neither is she so in this life by inherent Graces; but by the Righteousness of Christ put upon her by a gracious imputation: Christ calls her from Lebanon, from the top of Amana, Shenir, and Hermon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the Leopards, vers. 8. That is, from the brutish lusts and idolatries of the World; and he calls her thus:
Christ being our Husband, his Righteousness is ours; 1the Law cannot take hold of us, our Husband must be responsable for our faults: But this is a very hard Law (saith the Author) and the Husband in a very ill case: In truth our Husband, though the eternal Son of God, was made under the Law, wounded, bruised, cast into a bloody sweat, made a curse; and (as the Septuagint hath it, Isai. 55.3.) he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a man set in the stroke of Gods wrath: But all this he was, not by chance or fortune, but out of choice and unparallelled Love to his Spouse: The essentials of Marriage lie in a narrow room, a consent per verba de praesenti does it; but the just necessary consequents of it, are, as the Civilians tells us, Consortium omnis vitae, ⟨p. 403⟩divini & humani juris communicatio; the Wife participates of his sacred and civil good things; neither can it be otherwise, where there is, as there is in Marriage, such an intimate union of minds and bodies; there must needs be a communio bonorum, nature and reason tells us; that the Wife in so near an union must have 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, alimentum & indumentum, food and raiment, out of the Husbands estate; Nay, and all things in a decorum thereunto; and can we think that Christ should do less for his Spouse, when her necessities exceed all those in nature? Will he, who infinitely transcends all humane Relations, leave his Spouse to the rags of her own Righteousness, or suffer her to perish in an eternal prison for debt; and that, when he hath fulfilled the Righteousness, and bore the curse of the Law on purpose to cloth her, and satisfie for her? The whole Book of Canticles is a divine Ditty; which, under the parable of Marriage, streams all along, as a full torrent of Spiritual Love interchangeably passing between Christ and his Church: Well might the Doctor bring his proof from thence: Christ calls his Spouse all fair, and without spot, Cant. 4.7. She was not so ⟨p. 404⟩naturally, but by Marriage; neither is she so in this life by inherent Graces; but by the Righteousness of Christ put upon her by a gracious imputation: Christ calls her from Lebanon, from the top of Amana, Shenir, and Hermon, from the lyons dens, from the mountains of the Leopards, vers. 8. That is, from the brutish lusts and idolatries of the World; and he calls her thus:
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