sx6 Cant.~.1., 11 ~------~--- - InftruEtianJ for 11 rightcamforting Se&.3. men to caG: unworthy afperftons ·upon the glory of profefsion for their fakes. Nay too often by its fut• tle iniinuations,and Sirm.r Songs, it luls them fo long upon her lap,that they are caG: into an heavy flumber, even ofcarnall fecurity; And that fo deepc and dangeroufly, that though the Lord Ieftts,tbe Beloved of : their Soule, cry aloud in their cares by the l11rill and . piercing found ofhis fpirituall1 rumpetters, and by the more imniediate and .inward· motions of hts Holy Spirit,intreate themfairely upon allloYes, for his owne deere pafsions fake, and an ·thofe bloody futf.:rings to fhake offthat carnall drouzine{fe, and to delight againe in God; to let the earth £1!1 out of their minds, and againe to minde heavenly thin~s: Open tameemy Sifter,my Love,my 'Dove,myundeftted: For my head u filled With dt'w, and my lockJ With tiJe drops ofthenif,ht: yet for all this fdlloththey are to leave their beds ofeafe: And therefore frame nuny fhifts, excufes and delayes, to pafi! by and put otF thefe compafsionatc calls oflove, and ·mercifull.importunities; I have put off my coate, ho~v foal! J pr1t it on? I ha'w \Vafoedmy feet, how foa!t I defile them ? vVhereupon their blcffed Spoufe fo unworthily re· · pell~d with fome notorioqs unkindndfe ·and ingr::- tituddcattering onely in their hearts fonwfenfe and .glimmcrings ofhis fpirituall fweetne!fe and beauty, to breed the niofe fhamc and forrow for fo foulc negled, departeth from them for a time; witl_1drawes the life .andJightfomeneffe of his gratious prefencc; ·hides,, as it were, in an angry cloud, the comfortable beames ofhis former favour, and fo leaves them to the darkeneffe oftheir owne fpirits, and in the corn· fortleffe Dampe of a jufily deferved defertion, that · thereby they may be ichooled to prize Idus Clmit before ·gold and !ilver ; and to preferre, as is moft meet, one glimpfe of his ple.afed fice, before the ·lplendour ofall e:1rthly im1~~rjpll Crowns: -To liften , . ,I with
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