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A04831	The marriage of the lambe Or a treatise concerning the spirituall espousing of Christ, to a beleeving soule, wherein the subject is fully handled in the nature of it, in the effects, priviledges, symptomes, with the comforts that arise to a beleever from this relation, wherein also the excellencie of Christ, and many other spirituall truths flowing from the subject are by way discovered. By Benjamin King, minister of Gods Word at Flamsteed in Hartford-shire.	King, Benjamin, b. 1611 or 12.	1640 (1640)	STC 14963; ESTC S103355	46,240	182

to Christ when nothing comes in competition with him but when pleasure profit liberty and preferment comes in the way that either a man must forsake these or the profession of his love to Christ then for to cleave unto Christ proves our love to be conjugall The young man in the Gospell made many shewes of his love to Christ but when Christ bad him goe and sell all that he had he went away sorrowfull The Rulers many of them professed faire love to Christ but yet when it came to this passe that they which confessed Christ must be cast out of the Synagogue Iohn 12.42 they would not confesse him any longer so that it is constancie in our love to Christ that proves our love to bee a true conjugall affection Thus much of the consequents of this spirituall marriage which are mutuall betwixt Christ and his spouse the consequents that are proper and peculiar follow and these are either Such as are exparte sponsi on Christs part Such as ere ex parte sponsae on a beleevers part First such as are on Christs part which are two 1. A communication of secrets 2. A communication of goods First a communication of secrets The 1. consequent on Christs part Christ will communicate those secrets to a beleeving soule espoused unto him that hee will not communicate to a stranger a man will communicate much to his friend according to the Prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All things amongst friends are common but much more will a man communicate to the wife of his bosome Dalilah Sampsons wife could get the meaning of the riddle out of Sampson that all the Philistines could not finde out so is the Spouse of Christ privie to those secrets that all the wise and learned being not espoused to Christ are ignorant of The secrets of the Lord are to them that feare him Psal 25.13 He revealeth his secrets to his Servants the Prophets Amos 3.7 My beloved had me into his Chambers saith the Spouse of Christ Cant. 1.4 Cant. 1.4 opened Now as Chambers are places of safety as the Prophet sheweth Isay 26.20 Come my people enter into my chamber so chambers are places of greatest secrecie hence in Scripture they are called privie chambers and secret places opposed to the house top 2 King 6.12 Luke 12.3 Mat. 6.6 for Christ then to have his Spouse into his Chambers is nothing else but to make her privie to his secrets for this priviledge our blessed Saviour broke forth into a Doxologie unto his father Mat. 11.25 I thanke thee O Father that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Quest What are those secrets that Christ will communicate to his Spouse that hee will not communicate to a soule that is not married to him Solution (r) Dic nobis tu qui preparas quid preparas replebiniur bonis domus tuae sed quib●s bonis vine olco f●umento sed haec novimus videmus fastidimus id quaerimus quod oculus non vidit Bern. Serm. 11. in Caniic Such secrets as Eye hath not seene neither eare heard neither can it enter into the heart of man to conceive 1 Cor. 2.9.10 to instance in some particulars The first secret is the pardon of sinne the most blessed newes and most joyfull tidings that can come to the soule of a reasonable creature when the soule with Heman Psal 88.7 lyeth crying day and night under the indignation of the Lord with David roaring for very disquietnesse of Spirit with Iob the arrowes of the Lord drinking us its spirit then for Christ to whisper unto the soule in secret by his Spirit and to say unto it Spouse be of good comfort Thy sinnes are forgiven thee this is a secret Christ will communicate to none but unto his spouse But some may say how may a poore soule know whether this voyce of Christ by his spirit be not a delusion of Satan Answ It is true that the devill can suggest falsely into his owne children what Christ in truth suggests into the hearts of his owne people and that often he can counterferfeite this testimony of the Spirit concerning the pardon of sinne putting in thoughts of comfort mercy and remission of sinne and of peace to the soule when God makes himselfe ready for Warre But by this may Christs voyce comforting the soule be knowne from Sathans flatteries and false perswasions How Christs voyce is known from Sathans illusion concerning the pardon of sin from the time and condition the soule is in when these thoughts of Mercy and tidings of pardon of sinne come unto the soule if the soule as before be in a disconsolate condition by reason of the sense of the burthen of sinne and deepe apprehension of Gods wrath then for the soule to receive comfort and to entertaine thoughts of mercy lifting up the soule as it were from the gates of hell to the suburbs of heaven this is a good signe it is the work of Christ and his voyce by his Spirit communicating this secret of mercy and pardon of sinne because this is against the policy of Sathan to comfort the soule and to lift it up when it is in sinking through the sense of Gods wrath but on the contrary his ordinary course is when the soule is in heavinesse dejection and anguish and inclining to desperation to follow the soule close to drive it into the further degree of despaire till it be swallowed up of it But if the soule shal have thoughts of mercy and assurance of salvation suggested into it when it hath never felt the burden of sinne the spirit of bondage never beene truely humbled for sinne this is a signe of an illusion of Sathan to drive the soule to perish by presumption which is a more frequent Rocke against which the soule splits it selfe than desperation The second secret is the experimentall knowledge of the worke of regeneration a secret and mysterie that few are privie unto Nicodemus though a teacher in Israel yet ignorant in this point till Christ instructed him in it and at Christs first relating of it unto him it seemed a (s) What a parable is regeneration to many even old men Masters and teachers and rulers in Israel who knew no other nativity but one of Adam and Eve no progenie of God and his Church no other parents but such as beger earthly children to a naturall life c. D. Taylor on Tit. p. 65. riddle unto him till Christ shewed him how and in what manner it was wrought Iohn 3.4.5 Many can talke of the dangers of Warre of the wonders of the Sea of the Indies and remote places who yet never were in warre upon the sea or in any fore-mentioned Countries but they that have beene in hot skirmishes of warre that have gone down into the deepe and occupied ships in the great waters they that have seene the Indies and remote places have bought their

was caught This love in the third place is a (m) Amat profecto castè quae ipsum quem amat quaerit non aliud quid praeter ipsum Bern. Serm. 7. in Canti● Sponsa non petit libertatem non mercedem non haereditatem sed osculum more planè castissimae sponsae ac sacrum spirantis amorem nec ●omnino valen t is flammam dissimulare quam patitur osculetur inquit me osculo oris sui quasi dicat quid mihi est in coelo a te quid volui super terram Bern. ibid. free love whereby the beleeving soule cleaves unto Christ for himselfe and those glorious excellencies it sees in our Saviour Christ this property distinguisheth it from that (n) Cave anima ne quod absit meretrix dicaris si munera dantis plus quam amantis affectum diligis Aug. medit l. 2. c. 4. meretritious and mercenary love in worldlings that follow Christ as Christ upbraided some of the same stampe for the fishes and bread wherewith hee fed them Iohn 6.26 This hired love the (o) Cum magno calumniatore habemus negotium si quaerit singere quod non est ut in Iob. quanto magis objicere quod est Aug. de temp Serm. 234. Devils objected against Iobs sincerity Doth Iob feare God for nought but Iob cleaving to God upon the dunghill and in the lowest condition proved the Devill in that particular as hee was from the beginning to be a lyar The fourth property of a Christians love to Christ the Bridsgroome of his soule is that it is a strong and peremptory love it will carry a Christian through all (p) Amemus nos Christum ejusque semper quaeramus amplexus facile videbitur omne difficile brevia putabimus universa quae longa sunt jaculo illius vulnerati perhorarum momenta dicemus Heus me quia pereginatio mea prolongata est Hier. scribeus ad Eustochium difficulties and straights to Christ The love of Rachel carried Iacob through 14. yeares of hard service the love of Christ will carry a Christian through more difficulties than Labans service had in it Cant. 8.6.7 It is sayd to be as strong as death that conquers the greatest gyant and the mightiest Monarch zeale that is love inflamed is as inexorable as hell it selfe it is sayd to have fiery coales that pierce the heart which fiery coales of love all the waters be it a deluge and inundation of miseries and calamities persecutions and temptations are not able to quench Love is of that strength that it facilitates the greatest difficulties This we see in the ordinary bodily recreations many men take a pleasure in a toyle as in hunting running leaping ringing wrastling and the like and all out of love to these recreations much more is the love of Christ able to sweeten the hardest duty that Christ imposeth upon his Spouse What was it that made the fiery faggots to those blessed witnesses of the truth to seeme as beds of Roses but love What made the Disciples to forsake all but Christ and that love they beare to him What made Paul and Silas sing in Prison and the Apostles to returne from the Councill rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ but love to Christ What made the renowned Champion Stephen valiant in the midst of death but the sight of the Sonne of God standing at the right hand of his father and I am perswaded that if it had beene offered to Stephen that hee should have beene delivered from his present paine upon condition he should have beene deprived of his present vision of Christ by the opening of the heavens the love of Christ would not have suffered Stephen to have accepted of deliverance upon such condition so we reade of those strong ones in faith though weake in sexe they would not accept of deliverance in the middest of their torturings that they might obtaine a better resurrection Heb. 11.35 To conclude this Paul being armed with this love challengeth all the powers and peeres of hell it selfe Rom. 8.35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword as if he had sayd shall this or that if there be any more put them all into the scale and weigh but the love of Christ against them all and they shall bee found too light to sway my heart from the love of the Lord Jesus The fifth property the love of Christs Spouse is a bountifull love this the Apostle 1 Cor. 13.4 makes a property of true Charity that it is bountifull (q) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Ethic. l. 8. c. 13. bounty is the fruite of love and it is exercised towards any thing according to love if a man love his body nothing is thought too dainty to feede it too gorgeous to cloath it if a man love his pleasure nothing is counted too deare to maintaine it so where there is any true conjugal affection in a Christian heart that heart will rellish any thing that tends to the honour of Christ it will downe with frequent prayer humble and dayly confession of sinne zealous and Godly walking with God sincere universall and constant obedience to Christ though it be with the parting of the most dearely beloved sinnes that soule will thinke no teares of repentance no hearing reading singing no duties publicke or private too much whereby the honour of Christ may be advanced and its love to Christ better expressed Luke 7.47 Mary Magdalen is sayd to love much and this her great love was expressed to Christ by her bounty in washing his feete in anointing his head in wiping his feete with the haires of her head and Christ himselfe accepts of her washing anointing kissing and all other of her acts of bounty as Characters of her great inward affection The sixth property of this love is that it is intire as Moses his serpent devoured all other serpents because his serpent was from God so the love of God being from God eates and consumes the love of all things besides as it is sayd of Ioseph that there was none greater in Pharaohs Court and in the land of Aegypt than himselfe the like may be sayd of Christ in a beleeving heart there is none greater than Christ he is the Pilot that governes the ship the King that governes the whole man the Master and Lord that keepes the house of a sanctified heart to whom as King and Lord all the powers of the whole man submit all doe homage all performe respect feare and love and if there be love bestowed upon any other thing besides Christ as upon our selves and our neighbours yet it is for Christs sake and in subordination to him whom to love in due measure is to love without measure The seventh property of a Christians soules love to Christ is that it is a constant love it is no great matter to professe love