An heavenly wonder, or, A Christian cloath'd with Christ purposely penned to comfort Christs sin-sick-spouse / by Sam. Moore, minister of the gospel of God sometimes at Brides in Fleetstreete, London.
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- Title
- An heavenly wonder, or, A Christian cloath'd with Christ purposely penned to comfort Christs sin-sick-spouse / by Sam. Moore, minister of the gospel of God sometimes at Brides in Fleetstreete, London.
- Author
- Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Matthew Simmons,
- 1650.
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- Subject terms
- Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Commentaries.
- Sin.
- Salvation.
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"An heavenly wonder, or, A Christian cloath'd with Christ purposely penned to comfort Christs sin-sick-spouse / by Sam. Moore, minister of the gospel of God sometimes at Brides in Fleetstreete, London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51248.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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and 'tis a word of double form, to note out double, q. d. very excel∣lent beauty, and augment the sig∣nification. The righteous is more ex∣cellent then his neighbour, why? hee fulfils all righteousnesse? that's his comelinesse; it becomes us to ful∣fill all righteousnesse said Christ: but the next neighbour to a righteous man fulfills but some righteous things onely, therefore not so excellent. Beautiful, in thy graces, the ornaments I have given thee; thou art comely through my comeliness which I have put upon thee: thou art my Spouse; but I am thy beauty: thine owne is not, has lost its be∣ing. Where's roome for vaine boasting, glorying in the flesh? the Spouse shines out indeed, but 'tis in the rich rayes of her hus∣bands beauty. Christs lustre shines out in Christians, as the Moone a∣mong the lesser Stars, and their glory's but the sparklings forth of his spotlesse nature, in them; Christs beauty fils all the corners
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and concavities of the widest de∣sires of soules. Thou O Lord art my glory, said David the King: we hold all things in Capite tenure from Christ, thence let us take our name: will you mind that satisfy∣ing saying? that you may be filled with all the fulnesse of God, filled with God, a full expression, with the fulnesse of God, that's more; yet higher, with all the fulnesse of God. Beauty in God is the a∣menity and lovelinesse of his na∣ture, and all infinite perfections, as they offer themselves to his owne understanding, and to the under∣standing of men and Angels in their pleasantnesse; and this, even this, is the All of a Christians beauty. Is't queri'd how this can be, that Christ and Christians share in beauties? We answer,
Notes
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Psal. 45. 11. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ʋnde nomen, Joppa à pul∣chritudine & Elegantia, à 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 derivatur Leigh. Crit. sacr.
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Prov. 12. 26.
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Matth. 3. 15.
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Ezek. 16. 14.
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Ʋxor fulget ra∣dijs Mariti Velut inter Stellas Lund Minores.
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Psal. 3. 3.
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Ephes. 3. 19.