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The mystical marriage. A brief essay, on, the grace of the Redeemer espousing the…
The mystical marriage. A brief essay, on, the grace of the Redeemer espousing the soul of the believer. / By the late Reverend Dr. Cotton Mather. ; Approved by several pastors of our churches, as a present, proper to be offered unto our young people: and very particularly when the celebration of a marriage affords an agreeable occasion for it.
Boston N.E.: printed for N. Belknap, 1728
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
There is a COVENANT of Life, wherein the SON of GOD has engaged these Two things unto his FATHER, on the behalf of his People which are in the Eternal Election of GOD given unto Him: The First That he will by answering the Law of GOD for them, furnish them with a Sacrifice and a Righteousness, on the pleading whereof they shall be Forgiven and Accepted with Him: The Second, That He will write the Law of GOD in their Hearts, and Heal all that is amiss in them, and work in them ⟨p. 6⟩what is well pleasing in the sight of GOD, and having by a Sanctifying work upon their whole Man, prepared them for the Inheritance of the Saints, bring them to the Spiritual Blessings of the Heavenly places. A Soul desiring to be comprehended in the Engagements of this COVENANT, and consenting that a Glorious CHRIST should fulfil for it and in it, all this Good Pleasure of His Goodness, is brought into the COVENANT of Grace, and is therein Espoused unto the Lord.
There is a COVENANT of Life, wherein the SON of GOD has engaged these Two things unto his FATHER, on the behalf of his People which are in the Eternal Election of GOD given unto Him: The First That he will by answering the Law of GOD for them, furnish them with a Sacrifice and a Righteousness, on the pleading whereof they shall be Forgiven and Accepted with Him: The Second, That He will write the Law of GOD in their Hearts, and Heal all that is amiss in them, and work in them ⟨p. 6⟩what is well pleasing in the sight of GOD, and having by a Sanctifying work upon their whole Man, prepared them for the Inheritance of the Saints, bring them to the Spiritual Blessings of the Heavenly places. A Soul desiring to be comprehended in the Engagements of this COVENANT, and consenting that a Glorious CHRIST should fulfill for it and in it, all this Good Pleasure of His Goodness, is brought into the COVENANT of Grace, and is therein Espoused unto the Lord.
This Transaction appears under the Character of a Marriage, because from this Time, there is an UNION, and not only a Legal Union, but also a Vital Union, between the Redeemer and the Believer. It comes to that,