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 so right a husband: For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof Psal. xxiv I Ye need not fear scant nor that Christ will scale house; The marriage is come It is not simply he glorified in heaven but the time when God will make good all his promises to his Kirk in Christ. Saw ye was not this marriage of the Lamb before? Yea was not Christ his Kirk's husband and well-beloved from the beginning?

Answ. In God's purpose he was from eternity the King; Lord and husband of his Kirk: But for the going out of the marriage, we are to know, that the Kirk was suited and wooed long before the marriage. Christ take not his wife at the first blink; as Samson fell in love with his wife; but he married with advisement, so to speak; he and his Kirk are thrice lawfully proclaimed in the preached gospel. There is meetings and communings about the heads of the contract; wherein Christ tells of his own excellencies and his Father's glory, and what mansions are above. As long as the first husband [the law] lives, Christ does not marry, Rom. vii I. If ye and the world be hand-fastned together, that marriage must be divorced, or else he will not look on that side of the house that ye are in. Before it come to this "Even so I take her;" Christ makes three journies to his wife: Ist When he came in the flesh he wood sinners, and offered himself to the world. 2dly. After his ascension to heaven, he comes another journey, by his Spirit, in his ministers, who preach the gospel: so as Paul saith, you are betrothed to a new husband. 3dly, He will