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A01889	Spiritual marriage: or, The vnion betweene Christ and his Church As it was delivered in a sermon at Westminster, the first of Ianuarie. Anno Dom. 1626. By Iames Baillie, Master of Arts.	Baillie, James, Master of Arts.	1627 (1627)	STC 1203; ESTC S120307	33,214	58

this Gospell is not preached it is a sure argumēt that there is none of Gods chosen childrē in that place for where there is a haruest God will send reapers and labourers where he will plant a vineyard and when there is but little preaching in a Parish or a Citie it is a token that God hath no great haruest in that place and where the lampe of the Gospell hath been burning once in a glorious manner and now is extinguished the candlestick remoued and false lights set vp in the place thereof as in the Church of Rome it is euident that the Lords haruest is done in that Citie place or Parish because the Lord will neuer call home the labourers otherwise in the noone time of the day nor remoue his Ministrie from his owne peoples conuersion consolation and farther corroboration in which regard the Ministers of Gods word in some respect are the parents of all Christians that is both their father and their mother Iustified by St. 1. Cor. 4.15 Paul In Christ Iesus faith he I haue begotten you through the Gospell And here it is cleere that they are the fathers of Christians and Gal. 4.19 he makes it plaine that they are the mothers of all Christians too My little children of whom I trauell againe in birth till Christ bee formed in you Gods Ministers the Parents of Christians And this should teach all Christians reuerently to speake of their Ministers to honor them maintaine their reputatiō as their begetters to be the heirs of the kingdom of heauen to supply them in their necessities as their spirituall parents But the omission of this dutie toward the ministerie argues that Christ is not yet formed in them which is the forming of them to Christs Image and similitude by casting off the old man which cannot be done without sorrow and paine like a woman in her labour whereof as yet they haue neuer so much as once felt the least smarting But before Christ be formed in them they will be sensible of it for if a woman cannot be deliuered of her child which she hath carried but nine moneths in her wombe without dolour and griefe shall we thinke to be deliuered of sinne which is a man an old man and a man which we haue carried about within our breasts ever since the day of our natiuitie without spirituall dolour and paine No it is not possible for in a sinners conuersion and forming of him according to the Image of the sonne of God there must bee the broken heart the contrite Spirit the mourning weed the pale countenance the melting eye and the voice of lamentation and therefore Repentance receiues these three names in Scripture Regeneration Three names giuen to Repentance Circumcision and Mortification and as there can be no cutting of the flesh no death no birth without paine so in this spirituall birth Wherein consisteth the paine in the spirituall birth in this forming of sinners to the Image and similitude of Christ there is paine paine for their owne sins past paine for the iniquities of the wicked because they will not keepe Gods law paine for all the abominations in the Land and place wherein they liue paine for to see the Church of God so oppressed in many places of the world and finally paine for their absence from their country the kingdome of heauen Those that are after this manner in labour and paine are the children of Christ begotten in this spirituall marriage not by the will of flesh and blood but by the will of God And thus much for the three similitudes by which our vnion with Christ is expressed And now I come to the two qualities of this Marriage The two qualities of this marriage the certaintie and the perpetuitie but because the time is spent I feare that I haue stayed you too long I will dispatch them in a word The certaintie then of this marriage as I told you is implyed in the gemination and doubling of this Promise I will marrie thee to me yea I will marrie thee And this is no tautologie or vaine repetition but an infallable truth iustified by Ioseph Gen. 41.32 that tels vs that Pharaohs dreame was doubled because the thing is established by God It is truth that Gods promises are as sufficient when they are but once made as when they are reiterated as firme when they are spoken as being sworne confirmed with an oath yet for to supply our weakenes and defects our most gracious God is not only willing to promise but often to double redouble his promises as he did to Abraham in the booke of Genesis Gen. 12.2 Gen. 13.14.17 Gen. 15.18 Gen. 18.8 when hee promised vnto him the land Canaan not once twise or thrice but fiue times And here in my text not once or twise I will marrie I will marrie thee but the third time yea I will euen marrie thee Not only content to speake but to sweare as in Psal 12.11 The Lord hath sworne vnto David and he will not shrinke from it that of the fruit of thy body will I set vpon thy throne The Apostle Heb. 6. giueth the reason and tels vs wherefore this is done that thereby saith he he might declare to the heires of the promise the stabilitie of his counsell And looke how stable and how sure that our Election bee the certaintie of this Marriage is as sure and what arguments and reasons may be or can be brought to proue the certaintie of the one the same will serue to proue the certainty of the other but at this time I will neither weary you nor lose my selfe in such a wildernesse of discourse for none can be members of this Marriage but the Elect. The last qualitie of this Marriage is perpetuitie for euer This speech for euer is taken 3. manner of wayes This speech for euer taken three manner of waies in Scripture first for the time of a mans life only and so it is taken Psal 121.8 The Lord shall preserue thy going out and thy comming in from henceforth and for euer that is all the dayes of thy life that notwithstanding of the speculatiue interpretations of many that hath commented this place that can draw out quidlibet ex quolibet gold out of drosse or rather turne gold with their metaphysicke contemplations into drosse whose opinions I cannot now stay to refute Secondly in the old Testament it is extended somtimes to the Messias his comming in the flesh so is it taken Gen. 17. Where the Sacrament of Circumcision is called a Couenant for euer Circumcision abolished yet you know it was abolished at the institution of Baptisme and S. Paul in dirision cals it Concision and in 2. Gal. 4. a Bondage Likewise in the 12. Chap. of Exodus the Passouer is called an Ordinance of the Lord to be kept holy for ever The Passouer abrogated Neuerthelesse it was abrogated at the institution of the sacrament of the Lords supper Thirdly it is taken not only for the whole time of the worlds induring but likewise for that Eternity which shall bee after the consummation of the world and so it is taken Revel 11.15 where it is said That Christ shall raigne for ever and here in my text I will marrie thee vnto mee for euer No time here no time hence shall repudiate sunder and diuorce vs but as I haue loued my Church before all time so will I continue my affection towards my welbeloued after all time and when there shall be no more time But seeing time is spent let vs winde vp this clew let vs see what wee shall render vnto the Lord for so great fauor bestowed vpon vs for so great loue shewed toward Mankinde aboue the Angels in marrying himselfe vnto vs making vs sure of this marriage alluring vs to constancie by louing speeches and by great promises perswading vs yea drawing vs to imbrace it and suffring the Angels to lie still vnder the heauie burden of his wrath in the most wofull and most miserable estate of Apostacie What say I shall we render vnto the Lord for so incomprehensible a benefit and such an infinite weight of loue ten thousand rivers of oile all the beasts on thousand mountaines yea in all the forrest of Libanon are nothing to the Lord. What then heare the Apostle Loue the Lord because he hath loued vs first let our hearts melt with kindnesse toward him then shall it be vnto vs a faithfull witnes that we are a part of his mysticall body a part of the Church of the elect his spouse and that the Lord loueth vs for this loue is the first effect of our faith the most expresse trace of Gods Image and the most liuely marke of his children it is the soule of other vertues the rule of our actions and the summarie of the Law it is the vpholder of Martyrs the ladder of heaven the peace of conscience yea I dare say that it is a tast a beginning here of that infinit loue which hence we shall carrie toward Christ our husband when we shall be presented vnto him without spot or wrinkle a most chaste spouse vnited and perfectly haue this promise of marriage consummated and fulfilled To this our husband and redeemer with the Father and the holy Spirit three persons and one Deitie be all honour praise and dominion for now and euermore AMEN FINIS

Temperancie as hee did to NOAH and LOT sometime their Continencie as hee did to DAVID sometime their Humilitie as hee did to HEZIKIAH 2. King 20. And made him in the pride of his heart which of all vices is the first to shew the treasure of his house to the Ambassadours of BERODACH BALADAN King of Babell which thereafter produced a strange effect even that not only his treasure but the fruites of his loynes in the reigne of IEHOIACHIN the people and all the strongest men of warre were carried vnto Babell and Captiuitie 2. King 24. Somtime againe Satan assaults vs in our religion and former zeale and it is wonderfull how almost he euer preuailes once against Gods children howsoeuer it be true that in the end he is euermore repulsed and driuen backe againe And in this manner he besieged SALOMON the ornament of the world both for knowledge and godlinesse prevailed against him caused him commit Idolatry and his Idolatrous wiues to turne his heart after other Gods ASHTAROTH the god of the Zidonians and MILCOM the abomination of the Ammonites 1. King 11. 1. King 11. And lastly Sathan labours much to steale from Gods children their honest name this is one of his most subtle assaults and vseth the tongues of his owne instruments to effect his purpose against the enemies of his kingdome Vt qui conscientiae suae luce clarescunt falsis rumoribus sordidentur Nazian that those who through the testimonie and light of their innocent consciences shines like the sunne in his meridian may be made blacke like the night filthy as a puddle by the false reports of others Good IOSEPH in the 39. chapter of Gen. was after this manner set vpon by one of Satans owne instruments POTIPHARS wife for when she could not arriue at the intended end of her naughtie thoughts come and lie with me she stole from him his good name this Hebrew seruant would haue mocked me and so made him odious and filthie in his maisters eyes and in the sight of his friends and after this manner are many chosen vessels set vpon by the souldiers of Satan so as it is impossible for vs to keepe the whole peeces of our bodie together except we put on the suite of protection that suite of compleat armor in the 〈◊〉 the Ephes And stand with our loines girded about with veritie hauing on the brest-plate of righteousnesse and the shooes of the preparation of the Gospell of peace he must haue in the one hand the shield of Faith and in the other the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God vpon our head we must put on the hope of Saluation for an helmet and the sling of Prayer must be in our mouthes or rather in our hearts with strong cryings inward groanings as MOSES had it at the red Sea Exod. 14.15 when PHARAOH pursued after him his people and to these pieces I could yet adde one further another paire of shooes the Prophet EZEKIEL speaketh of those shooes in his 16. Chap. and they are made ex pellibus melium of Baggets skins The shooes of the Baggets skin why assigned to the Church Elinie in the 38. chap. of his 8. booke Records that melis is a beast not only of great innocencie but of such singular prudencie too quod sufflatae cutis distentione ictus hominum ac canum morsus arcere solet that by the extension of its skin it can shun both the strokes of men and bites of dogs and therefore among many more tokens of Gods fauor bestowed vpon his spouse the Church for her preseruation he likewise hath assigned vnto her the shooes of this beasts skin to teach her both innocencie and prudencie to be innocent like a Doue but wile like a Serpent for her protection against all her malignant enemies whatsoeuer Thus must we walke armed continually armed so long as we are in this life 2. Tim. 2.3 as the good Souldiers of IESVS CHRIST Iob. 7.1 because our life as saith IOB is a warfare Ephes 6. and wee must fight against Principalities powers and spirituall wickednesse and not only fight but must ouercome anquish and subdue them and thus much for the three first suites of apparell our workadayes suites which euery good Christian must put on every day so long as he is in this life heere belowe But as to the 4. and last it is a garment of Glory The 4 Garment and its 3. names our wedding garment and our holy dayes suite but when the weeke of our warfare shall end and the day of our refreshment Act. 3.20 the day of our eternall peace appeare and begin which is our euerlasting Sabbath Revel 19.7 our marriage day with the Lambe after which shall neuer come a night then shall our father cause this suite our holy dayes suite our best robe to be brought out and cover vs with white raiment 1. Cor. 15. then shall this mortall put on immortalitie and this corruptible incorruptibilitie then shall we be couered with brodered worke and the LORD shall put frontlets vpon our faces eare rings in our eares Esay 26. bracelets about our armes chaines about our necks Esay 61.10 and crownes vpon our heads yea the Lord himselfe shall be vnto vs a crown of Glorie and a diadem of beautie Thus will he deck vs as a Bride attired with Iewels 2. Cor. 11. as a chaste Spouse to be presented to our immortall husband without spot or wrinkle in whose face is the fulnesse of Ioy and at whose right hand are pleasures for euermore rivers of pleasure in which wee shall bath our selues for all eternitie And so haue you briefly the similitudes of the Garments Now resteth the similitude of Marriage The similitude of Marriage and indeed this Spirituall vnion betweene CHRIST and his Church is very often expressed by Marriage in the old and new Testament In the 45. chapter of Esay fifth verse Isay 45.5 hee who made thee is thy husband whose name is the Lord of hostes And in the 9. of Math. 15. Can the children of the marriage chamber mourne so long as the bridgroome is with them Math. 9.15 And yet more plainely in the 19. of the Reuel 17. Revel 19.17 The marriage of the 〈◊〉 hath come and the bride hath made her selfe readie And againe Reuel 21.9 Revel 21.9 I will show thee the bride the Lambes wife And here in my text as plainely as liuely and more liuely then in any other place Hosea 2.19 I will marrie thee vnto me for ever In all which our most gracious God willing to expresse and desirous to shew foorth both that loue which hee beareth vnto vs and that too which he looketh for at our handes compares this most strait vnion this most neere coniunction betweene CHRIST and his Church vnto the sacred bond of Marriage by which two persons the man and the woman the husband