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The book of the Song of Solomon in meeter with some brief observations from the text, something pleasant, but more profitable to the unprejudiced reader, who loves the knowledge of God, and hath his heart inflam'd with the love of the Lord Jesus / by T.S. ...
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that the king of glory may enter in My well-beloved put His hand in at the door And opened what I shut That kept him out before n The more a soul feels and discerns Christ in his most inward workings the more it is inflam'd with love to Christ less love to self and greif for former failings O rare effect My bowels move for my dear love And my neglect 5 o Where there is true repentance that soul is rouzd up from sleepy security and is found readily and graciously acting the thing that is good When I did rise and stir To open to my dear My hands did drop with mirrh That on the lock was there who ' f grace partake Those souls will never want endeavor When once awake 6 p Christ being slighted and neglected withdraws his spiritual presence and so leaves a soul in darkness and misery I opened now in huste It was no time to stay But now the time is past My lover 's gone away A just reward For he that su'd and beg'd and woo'd Had no regard q A refusing the sweet and gracious words of Christ when seriously considered will break the heart with sorrow But when I heard him speak My soul did melt away That heart with grief must break That ever said him nay r Those that stop their ears when Christ calls unto them they shall cry and call yea his own dear ones for a time and not be heard I sought in vain My prayers and crys he still denys To entertain 7 The watchmen they are found Of whom I look't for ayd They smote me and my wound By them was deeper made Each one of those That did pretend to be my friend are turn'd my foes t Sinful security breaks the Churches staves of beauty and bands robs her both of her glory and defence exposes to great shame and misery The keepers of the walls They took my vail away What mischeif them befalls That err and go astray Alack alack How soon our fame is turn'd to shame When we draw back 8 u Vnder spiritual desertions there is want of consolation 't is a mercy to have the faithful to pray for us and our duty to call in for their help Jerus'lems daughters ye That loving be and kinde Who seek in the right way That you my love may finde w Love and zeal warm the heart the prayers of the faithful are fervent and so avail much I charge ye when Your hearts desire ascends in fire To minde me then x A gracious soul languishing in love to Christ grieves for former neglect longs to be sensible of reconciliation to Christ calls and cries to the faithful to present in prayer its sad condition to him Oh tell him be ye sure That I am sick of love My heart cannot endure Unless his bowels move For though I were To slumber bent and negligent My heart 's sincere 9 y The more a Christian knows of Christ the more he desires and longs to know him and therefore enquires of those that have experience what beauty loveliness excellency glory and worth they see know and have found to be in him Why what is thy belov'd More then another is That thou so much art mov'd For this absence of his Why dost so charge Is he of worth then set thou forth His praise at large 10 z Those that are affected with Christ spiritual glory and have tasted the sweetness that is in him are fittest to describe it to others and will fully and freely communicate what they know feel and are affected with that others may love and admire him as themselves My wel-beloved then Which ravisht hath my heart Chief of ten thousand men Is glorious in each part A mixture fine Of red and white to breed delite In him doth shine 11 His head whereon he wears And 's glistering crown doth hold In glory it appears Much like the finest gold His locks together Are bushy set as black as jet Or ravens feather 12 a Christ is meek humble holy perfectly pure who cannot look on sin with the least allowance teaching us hereby that as he is so should we be in this world As are the eyes of doves In springs that take delight So are his eyes who loves No evil in his sight His gentle eyes With milk are wet and even set Impartiall-wife 13 b The face of Christ is transcendantly comly blest are all such who live in the light of his countenance and whose souls are sweetned and delighted with his presence His cheeks much like the bowers Or beds of spices are The sweetest of all flowers With his may not compare c The words of Christ have a distastful relish to the misled sinner but to the obedient believer are pure precious being hid in his heart preserves it from all rottenness corruption sin and filth whatsoever His lips distills Sweet smelling mirh sure none can err Whose heart it fills 14 d Christ is alway ready abundantly to supply the wants of his people and to help them by his power in time of need His hands like to gold rings Set with a precious stone The choycest of good things He freely gives his own e Christs Compassions are great to all and his heart is most affectionately set upon his own humble and holy ones His belly much Like ivory bright with saphirs dight And heart is such 15 f Christ by his almighty power hath overcome and vanquisht all for the good and sakes of his and they shall vanquish and overcome all that opposes them by the same power of the Lord Jesus His legs his feet and thighs Like marble pillars are Whereon such strength there lies None may with it compare And more behold His feet are set in sockets neat Of finest gold g The spiritual glory of Christ surpasses all glory beheld only by those whose eyes are open'd to look into those abstruse and hidden things of the Gospel His countenance whereon To look doth dim the eye Is like to lebanon Sweet glorious comely high It doth excell The cedars tall and also all That tongue can tell 16 h Every word proceeding from the mouth of Christ was a word of grace peace and comfort and sweeter then the honey comb Most gracious are his words That from his mouth distils Great comfort it affords Each gracious heart it fils i Christ in every part absolutly perfect or the rare and excellent perfection of Christ is all that a gracious soul can desire ravishing the heart of a true believer my whole desires He is alone and there is none My heart so fires CHAP. VI. 1 a A powerful and plain description of Christ drawn out to the life in truth and reallity is of great efficacy or Christ powerfully preacht to the hearts and consciences of men is of great force to draw them out to enquire and seek after him WHere
spiced wine I 'le make thee drink And of pomgranate juyce for why I think Thou well deserv'st to drink the sweet'st of all Though some once gave thee vinegar and gall 3 e Saints as they want and stand in need of Christs power to support and strengthen them they may be assured to have and injoy in all seasons Now that I may not want my full comfort His left hand shall my feeble head support To chear my heart his right hand shall embrace me That neither sin nor weakness do disgrace me Such close embraces I can tell by trying They will revive a fainting soul a dying 4 f See chap. 2 and 7 ver I charge adjure and do forbid all them That are cal'd daughters of Jerusalem They stir not up my love by wicked ways Nor him awake until himself do please For whosoever doth him so provoke Must feel the force of his most angry stroak 5 g See chap. 3 and 6 ver Oh who is this we cannot but admire That doth ascend and rise up daily higher Out of the desart forlorn wilderness Into a state of happiness and bliss For she both lies and leans and still depends Upon her best belov'd as she ascends She rests she rowls she hopes on him she stays That her upholds and keeps in all her ways h By Jesus Christ all his are spiritually raised from a dead and filthy state to live a new life here and shall by him be rais'd again at the last day When thou wast fal'n my spouse I pittyed thee And rais'd thee from under the apple tree There did thy mother bear and bring thee forth In such uncleannesse as my soul did loath But through my blood and passion thou and she From sin and death are perfectly set free 6 i Christs favours conferd upon Christians are strong obligations to love and thinkfulness Now sith thou hast for me so great things done My heart thou hast for everlasting won And now I beg and pray dear love to be Yet more assur'd how well thou lovest me k To be in and upon the heart of Christ is the great priviledge and earnest desire of every Christian And therefore set me as a seal is set Upon thy heart that thou maist not forget Thy kindness to me and t'free me from harm Set me also as seal upon thine arme l That true divine spiritual love which is shed abroad in the hearts of the saints is powerful conquering and of a durable lasting nature For why the love I bear to thee my dear It is for strength much like the king of fear Whose deadly fatall stroak kills all but I If thou deny my suit for love must dye For like the grave that cruelly devours And every living creature overpowers Such is the zeal and love within my brest It quite consumes me I can have no rest The coals thereof are coals of heavenly fire Whose burning flames do mount my soul up higher This works this shines this upward flys This burning lyes and lives when t'other dyes 7 m There is no calamity misery or affliction no persecution so great that can extinguish the fire of divine loue to Christ Jesus Though men and devils daily go about Thinking to quench extinguish and put out This heavenly flame of love by often trying By feirce affliction whether 't will be dying Though many floods and waters overflow it n The more the Church of Christ is persecuted the more it flourishes The more they seek to quench the more they blow it Into a perfect flame of love divine To him that loves not less for ought that 's mine o Where there is true love to Jesus Christ it will make them to contemn despise yea to hate all things in comparison of him Such is the strength of love and more behold Not pearls nor precious stones nor purest gold Can force or flatter me to be disloyall My love is stronger and can bide the tryal It hates it scorns it loaths that mans great riches Or substance of his house which some bewitches To turn aside yet though 't were offer'd to me I would condemn and put it away from me So high is my resolve I do disdain All things for Christ for whom all loss is gain 8 p True love to Christ draws out the heart to love others also to pitty them pray for them and seek by all means their everlasting wellfare Thus unto thee my love I have exprest And yet with thee alone it must not rest I am constrain'd by it to make petition For our poor sister whose yet low condition Requires thy pitty for she is but small And little too having no brests at all To yeild refreshment oh what shall we do What grace desire what furtherance yeild unto Our little sister for whom 't is our care That she and we at last alike may fare Oh think upon her do her not forget She now is low but thou her time hast set When thou wilt for her speak and somthing say To shew thy grace in her appointed day 9 q The Church of Christ hath a wall for defence a door for entrance admission and exclusion is distinct from others by obedience to Christs laws and holyness surrounded on every side with the never fading mercys and favours of God If that she be a wall for so we would Have her to be then upon her we could As on a firm foundation raise and build Such palaces as silver pure doth yeild Let 's her divide from others by a name And then increase her glory to her fame And if she be or have a door which shows The building perfected as each man knows Oh when we can but see her this compleat Then will we compass her with mercys great Which will endure and are more lasting farr Then all or any boards of cedar are No gates or strength of hell shall once prevail To do her any harm though they assayl Her with great force for she 's the habitation Of him that makes her gates and wals Salvation 10 r Christians are then both amiable and useful when grown well in grace being united by faith and obedience are stedfast and immoveable Now I am grown into a perfect wall Such growth all have that hearken to Christs call My brests like towers they are erected high Others to help my self to beautify Now I am knit unto the corner stone My ground-work's sure and cannot be o'rethrown s Men in a natural state are filthy impure unpolisht rough unlovely but partaking of the grace of God in Christ Jesus unto conversion and faith are most precious and so esteemed by him From that time I found favor in his eyes Though once I was like stones that men despise When they among the rubbish lye unsquar'd Such was my state and so it with me far'd But now being hewn and squar'd and polisht bright I am become so precious in