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The Bride of Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

I. A. Muirhead
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Early in 1632 we find Samuel Rutherford writing in these words to his friend Lady Kenmure:

It is the crooked love of some harlots, that they love bracelets earrings and rings better than the lover that sendeth them; God will not be so loved; for that were to behave as harlots and not as the chaste spouse, to abate from our love when these things are pulled away. Our love to Him should begin on earth as it shall be in heaven; for the bride taketh not by a thousand degrees so much delight in her wedding garment, as she doth in her bridegroom; so we in the life to come, howbeit clothed with glory as with a robe, shall not be so much affected with the glory that goeth about us, as with the bridegroom's joyful face and presence.

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1952 , pp. 175 - 187
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1952

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