man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."

There is a great marriage spoken of, Eph. v. that hath a great mystery in
it, which the apostle propoundeth as the sample and archetype of all
marriages or rather as the substance, of which all conjunctions and
relations among the creatures are but the shadows. It is that marriage
between Christ and his church, for which, it would appear, this world was
builded, to be a palace to celebrate it into; and especially the upper
house, heaven, was made glorious for that great day, where it shall be
solemnized. The first in order of time was made by God himself in
paradise, certainly to represent a higher mystery, the marriage of the
second Adam with his spouse, which is taken out of his bloody side, as the
apostle imports, Eph. v. Now there is the greatest inequality and
disproportion between the parties, Christ and sinners; so that it would
seem a desperate matter to bring two such distant and unequal natures to
such a near union, as may cast a copy to all unions and relations of the
creatures. But he who at first made a kind of marriage between heaven and
earth, in the composure of man, and joined together an immortal spirit in
such a bond of amity with corruptible dust, hath found out the way to help
this, and make it feasible. And truly, we may conceive the Lord was but
making way for this greater mystery of the union of Christ with us, when
he joined the breath of heaven with the dust of the earth. In this he gave
some representation of another more mysterious conjunction. Now, the way
that the wisdom and love of God hath found out to bring about this
marriage, is this: because there was such an infinite distance between the
only begotten Son of God, who is the express character of his image, and
the brightness of his glory, and us sinful mortal creatures, whose
foundation is in the dust, therefore it pleased the Father, out of his
good will to the match, to send his Son down among men; and the Son, out
of his love, to take on our flesh, and so fill up that distance with his
low condescendence, to be partaker of flesh and blood with the children.
And now, what the Lord spoke of man fallen, in a holy kind of irony or
mock, "Behold he is become as one of us" that men may truly say of the Son
of God, not fallen down from heaven, but come down willingly, "Lo, he is
become as one of us;" like us in all things, except sin, which hath made
us unlike ourselves. This bo