Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

Again, On the one hand, Christ died in our nature that he might espouse us. Jacob ⟨p. 62⟩served for a Wife, David fought for one; but none but our dear Lord died upon a Cross for us: our match with him could not be dispatched without atoning blood. A type of this we have in that first Marriage between Adam and Eve; Eve was taken out of the side of sleeping Adam; the Church is taken out of the side of a dying Christ. The Jews say, that the woman was taken out of the side of man, to signify the marriage of the supreme blessed man: While Adam was sleeping, a rib was taken out of him and made into a woman; when Christ died on the Cross, there came out of his pierced side blood and water, in these we have the original of the Church, which rises up out of expiation and regeneration, to be a Spouse to him. On the other hand, Believers in the power, and after the pattern of a crucified Christ, dye to themselves and the world; his pure flesh suffered in a way of expiation; their corrupt flesh suffers in a way of mortification; by his Cross the world is crucified to them, and they to the world; his body was nailed to the Cross, and there they hang up their lusts to dye and expire: Thus there is a transcendent love between him and them.

Again, On the one hand, Christ died in our nature that he might espouse us. Jacob ⟨p. 62⟩served for a Wife, David fought for one; but none but our dear Lord died upon a Cross for us: our match with him could not be dispatched without atoning blood. A type of this we have in that first Marriage between Adam and Eve; Eve was taken out of the side of fleeping Adam; the Church is taken out of the side of a dying Christ. The Jews say, that the woman was taken out of the side of man, to signifie the marriage of the supreme blessed man: While Adam was sleeping, a rib was taken out of him and made into a woman; when Christ died on the Cross, there came out of his pierced side blood and water, in these we have the original of the Church, which rises up out of expiation and regeneration, to be a Spouse to him. On the other hand, Believers in the power, and after the pattern of a crucified Christ, dye to themselves and the world; his pure flesh suffered in a way of expiation; their corrupt flesh suffers in a way of mortification; by his Cross the world is crucified to them, and they to the world; his body was nailed to the Cross, and there they hang up their lusts to dye and expire: Thus there is a transcendent love between him and them.