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[ 176] The Soule's comfortable union with Christ.

ARtemisia,* 1.1 Queen of Caria, shewed an act of wonderfull passionate love toward her husband Mausolus; for, death having taken him away, she not knowing how to pull the thorns of sorrow out of her soul, caused his body to be reduced to ashes, and mingled them in her drink, meaning to make her body a living Tomb, wherein the reliques of her husband might rest, from whom she could not endure to live separated. Thus the true child of God, when there is any thing that may seem to preserve the memory of God in his soul, how doth he embrace the very invention of it? he becomes a true Mausolean tomb indeed; he hath a comfortable and true conjunction with Christ, eating his flesh, and drinking his blood; and these two can never be separated again.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Aulus Gellius lib. 10 cap. 18. Joh. Weems Pourtrait.