j ' i ... \ .. I ' '250 '!he 'Irial and Su.: ~o er, Cant. ii.14. andCant. v. Defertion isDeath itfelf, and a Death to the SouL 6. I opened to myJieloved, andmyJieloved had withdrawn himftlf, and was gone: And what was the Church's Cafe? My Soul went forth from m~. The Arabick, .lldj Soul departed, I died ; fo 1s Death defcribed by the like Phrafe, Gen. xxxv. 18. Rachet's Souhvas i·n departing, for jhe died: And ,when Men are fhick~ ,en with iudden Fe~r; the Heart is faid to go out : 1 So Gen. xlii.' 28•. · The Soul of Yofeph's Brethren departed, that 1s, They were extremely amazed, ' when they found their Money in their Sacks. The like was the Cafe of the Church when Chrifl: aeparted, ./he died for focrow, the Soul defarted · from the Soul, \becaufe her Lord · and Beloved was gone : Yet even that Death, ·that Soul-Hell in the Want of Chriit was a Heaven, it was a i\vcet and comfortable feafon, then bath fhe a Communion with him in a moftheavenly Manner. 1. Asking at ·the Watchrr.~n for him. 2. In binding fad Charges on the Daughters of :Jerufalem, to commend her to God by Prayer. 3· T1hen was fhe fick_~ of Love for him. 4· Then fell fhe out in tnat large I~ ove Rapture, in a rnofl: heavenly Praife ~<)I him in all his Virtnes, My l'Vellbelovecl is 'U.~hite . attd ruddy, and tlJe Chief t11120?J,e;fl ten thoufa,nd ~{c. ~er: then. the Hell.that Chnit throwerh the Sam ts m, m their Defertwns, is their Heaven. 6. The meaneit and lOweft Re- 'lation with ChriH is Honour : 7ohn :Baptift placeth an Honour, in unloojing tbe Latches of his Shoes, and thinker~, to bear his Sho_es, Is ri1ore Honour than ·he defervdth, .'John 1•• 2 7· ~avid a great Prophet, appointed to be a Ktng: 0 if I migl1t be (o near the.Lord, as t~7~e a ..voor·
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