His Cheekes ~re as beds of jpices, 36$ l c-hi-.l-dr-en- by- his spirit in any of hu ·ordinttn~es) ua s ~. fweet manifejtatt~n, and deleCiahl~ tU jjtces 11nd flowers ,as it ts)Cant.I•3. Becaufeof the favour of , thy aoodoymments,thy name is as an oymment . pow~·ed out)there~ore theVir~ins-Iove the·e. T~e very nameof~h!tfi whe_n he ts k~o~vneand latd openby the ~m.mftery.' rs aprecimls oymment, and the Virgtns, th3t tSi, all chafle foules follow himby the [mell of his oyntments, all his ordi- That a!J Cbri~s. 1'. ffi . ordmances are nances convaya 1 weetne ::to the foule; hts Sa- Jweet axe/ lo'C.Je· craments are fweet, his \iVord fweet, thecorn. ty, andwhatfo. munion of.Saints fwe~t. The pre~ence.of the Sun ft.~~ f;:~.eds · youknow 1s knowne tn the Spnng ttme by the frdhneffe of all things, whichput forth rhe life, I and littl~ livelindfe th.eyhave in them ; f?me in bloffo11:110g)and f~me 1~ flow~rs; that wh1ch lay (as it were) dead mWmter, It comes emwhen the Sunne drawes neare : .fo when Cbriil comes and {hewes his prefeoceand face to the foule, he I refrefheth and delights it. 'I Hence we fee theyare enemies to c.hrifi and to the foules of Gods people, that hmder the manifdl:ationof Chrifi, wherebyhis face might be feene, and his lovely cheekes difccrned; ' thofe that hate and undermine the ordinancesof fiod, they hinder the comforts of their owne fe.ules• . And they are enemies toChrifi,for when bath Chtifi glory but when the Virgins fo1Jowhim in the fent of his fweet c:>ymtments, when·the foule in the fen.feofhis fweetndfe followes him and cl,eaves to .him .wkh )oy, . love,·.andd~lighr, , · this
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