Cmt,'s,t6. _.....,._ ____ ~------· Chap.2.Seet.6> you know rhe manner ofrhe highPrieHs, was to carry rhe names . ofrhe children of I{Yilel into the holy of holies on rheir fhoulde:s, and onrheir breaHs_: bur \y,ls ir ever heard rhat any high , l'neH, befldes the great htgh Pne!t of ou.r profeffion , Jhould carry the names ofthoufands, and millions on his fhoulders and on his armes, and on his hands, and on his wings, and 0~, :· h~ bofome , and on his heart, nay in his heart , and in his . bowels , as a memorial before the Lord ? 0 unmatchable . love t • • · Methinks this love o£.. ~hrifl: fhould now chan~e my foul in- . to _a Globe or Maffe ofdtvme love towards Chn!t, a~ it were._. by the Spirit oft he Lord. Methinks a fight of <;:hrit! in his pre- _ fenring himfelf, and his facrifice to his Father for me, fhould fo enamour my foul as that I l11ould delight in no other fight but this ; then is a Chri!tian i\veetly exercifed, wli~n as the golden ,, Ball ofdivine love is toifed to and again betwixt ChriHs bofome :· and his ; and in this refpet-1: it is a wonder that before this I am not fickned, and overcome with love, and ready to cry out with·.< the Spoufe, 0 ftaJme -with Flagons, 11nd comfort me -with Applu, . fqr I Amjick..oflove. 0 I am wounded with the arrowes of love, · fo as neither grave, _ nor death~ nor heU; nritber Angels, nor prin- · ciplllitiu, norpo•erJ., nor things prefent, nor things tocomecan·· t'lltr lick..theft woHnds, or tn!Mlme,pr bind them up., 0 my Chrift:, _ trl] Lord,mJ {efus what jhoHJd I do but Jield over my [elf as a Spou{e ~tn;/er · the power of her h~tst~tnd ? 7!1'hlft fooutd I do but' l•fe f»J felfe in . fuch a deep Omm of lovtJ, ftronger thlln- 'lfi?Je, hotttr thAn CQII/es of {uniper, which hat·h a moft vehtment fl.tme! . . z.. ~nother motive ofour lo~e to Chri!t, it is our propriety 111 Chrl(t, 7e are not Jour own, fatd the ApoiHe of us; and he is nQt.his._ownjrp.ayweJayofChriH; ifany a~k how may thisbe? I anfwer, that the fod in loving Chrifl: is not her ow11, and in regard of loving, Chri([ is not his own-; every one makes over it felfto another; and pro; riety or intereH to it felf on both: fides ceafeth ; my BelO<cled i1 milfe ,a11d l 11m hi1, faith the Spoufe; not as ifChri!l fhould leave off robe his own, or to be a free God, when-he become£h ours; no, no; but be fo demeanes himfelfin refpe6l: of his loves, as if h~ were not his own; lte putt~-th on f\lch rdations, and affumes fuch offices_cf engage- . · ment, .
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