107 6 The f ate 1;the Church C AP. 8. rail provinces. As concerning the Precept. The c. ompanions that hearken, are all the Citizens of the Church , for then the Church bringeth it to page that the Bridegroom may heare Her fellowes, that is,her citizens and particular Congreg tions,when The fincerely delivereth the right way to beleeve in Chrift, and to woifhip God, fo that from her moowholtome inftruetions, fins may be acknow- ledged, mercy implored, goodneffe preached, and God in the end may receive his due honour. This is that voice of the Companions, wherewith the Bridegroomnull be delighted,which from that time 11111 found in the Church for ever,and whichvoice theCitizens learn to pronounce, Lftning to the doetrine and inaruetionof the Church theirMother. Vert, 14. Make; hafit, or fly hence my beloved, andbee thou like to st Roe, or to ayoung hart upon the mountaines ofSpices. It is the common defire in the Brides behalfe,which is delivered in this verfe, for the Univerfall Church breaketh. forth into there words, that the Bridegroom fhould fly away into the mountaines of Spices. What ? is the nowweary of his prefence, whom with filch labour, The before fought being abfent , that thee fhould fo Toone command him out of her fight ? No, but when the Spou/é carnal- ly defireth that her beloved would fly out of the garden into the mountains of Spices: it is as if Thee ihould defìre,that leaving the earth he -would return again to the heavenly fortreffe, for that meane the 1ll'umáines of Spices. Not that the wifheth ( being alone and deprived ofhis imbracings) any longer to Rieke in the filthy dregges of this world : but that The earneflly defireth to fly hence her felfetogether with her beloved, and to come to the inheritance laidup for the Eleet in heaven. For the (one of the Sifters) which even trew defrred that Thee might be fixed to his heart ,as a Seal, could not endure this divorce, to tarry here behinde him. This is all one with that ofSaint Iohn, 'KIT,. 22.20. Come Lord lefus; dif- fering a little in words. to?n requeífeth that the Bridegroom would Phewhimfelf to the world in the molt glorious manifeation of his Majefty, which is now covered from the eyes of the world at the right hand of the Father, and fo at lengthwould put an end to alt things. The Spoufe defireth that this Beame, how bright foever, which (hall then Thine in the earth,would as it were collect} his light, and withdraw it Pelf into heaven. Either of them wifheth the end,. -hut hedefineth it by comming from Heaven : the by departing from the earth. Either ofwhich we expecct, the comming firft, the de- partur{
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