454 CHRIST coMPARED To A BUNDLE oF MYRRH. Book II. lency t?ey behold _in it, ChriO: wi!l utterly dif.own them, as being none of his Seed or Off-fpnng, Phzl. 11. 5, 6. I Pet. 1. 16. Col. HI. I. S I M I L E. P A R A L L E L. XIII. The Eagle trains up her XIII. The Lord Jefus teacheth all his People Young to be like herfelf, and to to be like himfelf, fo far "" they are able, and to mount up as fhe mounts. ~aunt up as with Eagles 'Vings, and to live on XIV. The Eagle is very care– ful and tender of her Young. XV. Naturalifts tell us, *the. Eagle gives her young Ones of her own Blood, when !he cannot get other Blood for them to drink. XVI. The Eagle is very long– lived. The Greeks exprefs her by a Word fignifyingLongevity. And fome give the Reafon, not only from the excellent Temperament of her Body, but becaufe fhe lives in fuch h1gh, Ifa. xi. 31. XIV. So is the Lord Jefus of his People, ]obit XXI. 15. XV. The Lord Jefus fuftered himfelf to be wounded for us; his Hands and Feet, yea, his very Heart was pierced, that we might have his Blood to drink in believing: .Mj Blood is drink i11deed, John vi. 55· XVI. The Lord Jefus Chrifr is not only !ono-– lived, but he lives for ever, Rev. i. IS. He was from everlafiing, and he will be to ev~:r1afting. He is the King eternal, the Father of Eternity; Ifa. ix. 6. a pure Air, free from all evil Vapors, and noifome Smells. M E T A P H 0 R. D I S P A R I T Y. THEEagle hath many evil ~aJN all Things there can be no greater Difparity lities: She is neither fair nor imaginable; and upon this Account wicked comely, hath no fweet Voice, nor Men, or Tyrants, are compared to Eagles. is fhe good for Food; but fhe is quarrelfome, preying, devouring, folitary, envious of others, proud and lofty, the Plague and Torment of all other Birds or Fowls of the Air, an Enemy to Peace: She has horrible Claws; feeds on Serpents, Fifh, and Carrion; fnatching up Geefe, Hares, Lambs, &c. Gefner reports, that a certain Eagle's Neft was found, wherein were three hundred Ducks, one hundred and fixty Geefe, forty Hares and many Fifhes. An Eagle is very crafty: She fills her Wings with Duft, and gets upon a Stag's Horns, and beating the Duft and Sand into his Eyes, fhe blinds him, and then foon conquers him. She carries Shell-fifh on high, letting them fall upon the Rocks to break them, &c. I N F E R E N C E ~ I. pLY to Chrift, to bear you upon his Wings. II. To hide you under the Wings of his gracious ProteCtion: Under thy Wings~ faith David, will I make my Refuge, till thefe Calamities be overpaft, &c. Pjal. lvii. I. CHRIST COMPARED TO A BUNDLE OF MYRRH. A Bundle of .Mjrrh is my Beloved unto me, Cant. i. '3· THIS Book expreffes, under many different Metaphors and Similitudes, the Great~ nefs of Chrift's Love to his Church, and the Sincerity of the Church's Love to Chrift. Sometimes you have Chrift commending his Spoufe, fometimcs the Spoufe fpeaking in praife of Chrift, as fhe cloth here, A Bundle of fr!Jrrh, a Clttjler of Cam– phire, iJ my Beloved unto me. A Soul efpoufed to Jefus Chnft hath a great Love to him, and an high Efteem of him, knows not how to fet out that excellent Worth and Beauty it beholds in him. . . . . . . .Mjrrh is a kind of preciOUS Frmt, plentifully_ growmg mArabia; it is fomewhat bitter, but moft fragrant, and of excellent Ufe m Phyfic. 0 .£/ian, 1. If. c. xiv. See Car)/ on Job xxxix. METAPHOR.
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