3 14 Chap, 23. .tin Expofsticn up.m the BookofJ(7 B. Verf. 3. n« tnri 9 The vulgar latine Reading fixeth both thofe ads upon God as tiuwtut co.VAT the Abjeët ; O that fore one or other would give me to know and cam him ! As if his wi(h and longing delire w,re firfl to know ,,=d tan ay co [ïnd hinr ; or in finding to kn tw him. Our fiscondctc mina this knowing in 70b,and finding upon g-d. o r= t I _ newwhere I mightfinde him! Who it is that 705 would find: is not exprel; in the text by name, nor is there anyAntece- dent in the verf bofore,with wi hwecanCanned this relative him. itt'tis beyond queflio;i or dispute that he means God, O tb.,t I might finale him ! that is, god. But why did henot fay, O that I knew oo here to finde god, but, O that I knewwhere to finde him? I anf:er, Hecloth it becaufe his heart being full ofGod,he fuppo- Âed that chofe towhom he fpake had theirhearts full of him too, and fo would eafiiy underftand whom he meant, or that he could mean none but God. We find filch kinde ofabrupt speeches ( as I may call ch; m ) in other Texts of Scripture, trill arifing from fullnessand ftrength ofaffedhon in the fpeaker.See how Solomon begins his Love. fong; his Song of Songs. The Song ofSonp which is Solomon!, that's the title of it ; How doth it begin ? Let him kijfe me &c. Here is a ft angc Exordium to a Song,none having been fpoken ofbefore, Let him kiffe me with the kiffes of his mouth! by whom the Church would be kifed fheexprefeth not, but her heart was fo full of Chrift, fo full of love to Chrifl her Bridegroome, her husband, that she thinks it needle& to mention him by name, when the fçeakes ofhimwhole kiffes she defined. Her love had palled through the Whole Creation, through men and Angels, through 411 things here below, and fixt it felfe onelyupon Chrift her Lord and Love. Therefore shenever flood fpeakingperfonalty ofhim, hut only relatively, and leaves all tour;derland whom she inten- ded' Thus faith 7b, 0 that Iknew where Imight finde him ! when as he hadnot fpoken of anydi[lind person before, in this Chap= ter. And we have a likepaffage flowing from a like abundant love to Chrift, in the zo, of ?ohn, ver. i 5. where (Wary comes to theSepulchre (Chrift being rifer) and theAngell Peeing her weep asked, her the reason ofin; To whom the repl5ed, Becaufe they k.tve taken away my Lord,eend Iknow not where theyhave laidbins; having thus laid, Ike turnedherfelfe Backe, andlaw 7efusstanding, and knewnot that it wag 7eft.a : he faith unto her, Woman, why, weeper,
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