 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  The Baptist Magazine - Page 661825Full view - About this book
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1826 - 632 pages
...kingdom. SERMON XVII. THE MARRIAGE RING ; OR, THE MYSTERIOUSNESS AND DUTIES OF MARRIAGE. PART I. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Clergy - 1826 - 628 pages
...kingdom. SERMON XVII. THE MARRIAGE RING ; OR, THE MYSTER1OUSNES& AND DUTIES OF MARRIAGE. PART I. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see... | |
 | Religion - 1827 - 394 pages
...his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh : — this is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." As the wife is, by the marriage covenant, united to her husband ; as, in some respects, " they are... | |
 | Henry Ware, American Unitarian Association - Faith - 1827 - 512 pages
...illustrated or represented by the seven stars ; and the passage in Ephesians, where Paul says, " this is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the church." The connexion between our Lord and his followers he had illustrated from our natural affections; and... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh: this is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the church." As the wife is, by the marriage covenant, united to her husband ; as, in some respects, " they are... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife ; and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see... | |
 | John Ryland - Sermons, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...be holy and without blemish, &c. No one ever yet hated his own flesh ; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church, &c. This is a great...even all of our race that shall be finally happy, in which the husband stands to the wife. Is he not represented as more than equal to them all, as giving... | |
 | John Angell James - Domestic relations - 1828 - 294 pages
...leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the church." EpHEsrANg v. 22—32. OBSERVE the sublime and transcendently interesting fact, which stands amidst... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1828 - 242 pages
...leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the church." Finally, — The whole tenor of scripture teaches us to consider Adam, the first of men, as the covenant... | |
 | Christian life - 1828 - 414 pages
...and wives, concludes, as if he had lost sight of every other object and subject, with saying, " this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." And further, when we consider Adam's wonderful conduct on Eve having involved herself in the transgression,... | |
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