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94 THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.of the Father for his race, since it is his wife whobears every child to him. Why is the whole forceof human language exhausted, and the wholestrength of the several human affections accumulated,in this manner ? It is to express the super-eminent work, of God made flesh, who, when Hetook a human body, created in correspondence toit that among men and out of men in which thevirtue of His Incarnation is stored up, the mysticalKingdom, Temple, Body, Bride, and Mother.No one of these titles could convey the full richesof His work, or the variously wrought splendour ofHis wisdom, which the angels desire to look into ;therefore He searched through human nature andsociety in all its depth and height for images whoseunion might express a work so unexampled andunique. Rather, it is truer to say that these naturalaffections themselves, the gift of that mostbountiful giver, were created by Him originally tobe types, foreshadowings, and partial copies of thatmore excellent supernaturalove which He had decreedto show to man, since first of all things inthe order of the divine design must the Incarnationhave been. The whole structure of the family,and the affections which it contains, mustspring out of this root, for nature was anticipatedby grace in man's creation, and must ever havebeen subordinate to it. And now, ' when the fulltime of grace is come, these titles of things whichby His mercy have lasted through the fall, serve

THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.95to illustrate the greatness of the restoration. Forthis, which has many names, all precious and dear,is but one creation, having the manifold qualitiesof redemption and sanctification, of organic unityin one body, wherein many members conspire to acorporate life, which life itself is charity, and inwhich is the production of the holy race. As wegaze on the Kingdom, Temple, Body, Spouse, andFamily, one seems to melt and change intoother. The Kingdom is deepened and enlargedby the thought that the King is the eternal Truthwho is worshipped therein; and the worship passeson into the love of the IncarnateGod for the membersof His own Body, whom He first saves, then*fosters and cherishes as His own flesh : and hereagain is blended thathtenderest love of the Bride-groom for the bride, which further issues into thecrowning love of the Father for His race. Themode of the salvation seems to spring from thee of God Himself, since all patven and earth springs from that whereby He isther of the onlv-begotten O Son, / who, / descendifrom heaven with the love of the Bridegroom forthe bride, binds together in sonship derived fromhis own the members of His body, the bride of Hisheart, the subjects of His kingdom, who are builtup as living stones into that unimaginable templeraised in the unity of worshipping hearts to theever-blessed Trinity. To this grows out, as thefulness of Him who fills all in all, that body ofRARY ST. .'

THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.95to illustrate the greatness <strong>of</strong> the restoration. Forthis, which has many names, all precious and dear,is but one creation, having the manifold qualities<strong>of</strong> redemption and sanctification, <strong>of</strong> organic unityin one body, wherein many members conspire to acorporate life, which life itself is charity, and inwhich is the production <strong>of</strong> the holy race. As wegaze on the Kingdom, Temple, Body, Spouse, andFamily, one seems to melt and change intoother. <strong>The</strong> Kingdom is deepened and enlargedby the thought that the King is the eternal Truthwho is worshipped therein; and the worship passeson into the love <strong>of</strong> the IncarnateGod for the members<strong>of</strong> His own Body, whom He first saves, then*fosters and cherishes as His own flesh : and hereagain is blended thathtenderest love <strong>of</strong> the Bride-groom for the bride, which further issues into thecrowning love <strong>of</strong> the Father for His race. <strong>The</strong>mode <strong>of</strong> the salvation seems to spring from thee <strong>of</strong> God Himself, since all patven and earth springs from that whereby He isther <strong>of</strong> the onlv-begotten O Son, / who, / descendifrom heaven with the love <strong>of</strong> the Bridegroom forthe bride, binds together in sonship derived fromhis own the members <strong>of</strong> His body, the bride <strong>of</strong> Hisheart, the subjects <strong>of</strong> His kingdom, who are builtup as living stones into that unimaginable templeraised in the unity <strong>of</strong> worshipping hearts to theever-blessed Trinity. To this grows out, as thefulness <strong>of</strong> Him who fills all in all, that body <strong>of</strong>RARY ST. .'

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