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Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out…
Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge.
London: printed by John Haviland for William Bladen, 1622London: printed by Iohn Haviland for William Bladen, 1622
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 70. Of the union betwixt Christ and the Saints.
§. 70. Of the vnion betwixt Christ and the Saints.
EPHES. 5. 30. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
The reason of the forenamed love of Christ, and fruits 1thereof to his Church, is here laid down, as both the causal particle (FOR) and the inference of this verse upon the former do show. This reason is that near union which is betwixt Christ and his Church, set forth by a metaphor of the members of our body. Whereby he implieth, that though there were no other reason to move an husband to love his wife then the near union which is betwixt them (they being aone body, bone flesh, cone self) that were enough, for thereby only is Christ moved to love his Church.