--------------- --- A Song ofSolomon. 4· 'Ihe Ch11rchfols Again into a declining ofAf.. feC!ion,whereupon foUowes afortherftrange: ne!feofchrift toherthen6efore, which con– , tinues Lint ill, , 5, Thttt the church perceiving ofchrifls con– ftant affeCTion untoher, notwithftandingher unkindde_tding,recoversand cleavesfafterto · chrift thap ~ver 6efore,Chap.3. Thefe paffagesagree ~o the experience ofthe 5 befi Chrifiians in the llate of their owne lives. . This obfervation muil: carry ftrength through . this whole SonO' That 'there isthe tame relll'ardofl An Obftr'liatt6' ' . J.. o . on fiW the w'Nole thewhole Church,andofevtryparttctJlar memherm sorg. regard of the chicfeft priviledges 11ndgraces that accompany falvtttion .There is the fame reafon of every drop ofwater, asofthe wholeocean,all is water;and ofevery fpark offire,as of the wh0le Element of fire,all is fire;ofthofe Hem{)geneall bodies, as we call them, there is the fame refpect ofthe part,and ofthe whole. Andtherefore IU the whole Church is thefPoufo.D/Chrifi ,fo i5 every particularChrijiian:and tU the wholechurchdejires fii!t nearer communionwith chrift, fo doth every !particularmember. But to come to the words: I amcome intomy Garden,&c. ThisChapter is not fo well broken and divi– ded from the former as it m.ight havebin;for ie were better and moreconfequ~nt, that the Iafr Verfe of the former Chapter were added to the beginning of this. · c A N T. I V. XV I. . . uwake, oNorth-wind_~ tmd come thou South, B 3 blow '
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