- - -·--··- . --- --·· l · My Bel~-vedugoneintohisgarden. ~ \ another hath the ldfe. But there is no envy in S ER-'XV11I . ·grace and glory,becaufe all may f.harealike;ther- \ fore here is no envy in the anfwer ; as if ~e de- . nied the daughters of ItrufoJem the enjoying of · her beloved ~ no if you will know ([ayes the) I will tell yoN direttly whither my beloved is gone. · MY Belo-vedis gone intohiJGArden to the 6ed of f}ices.&c. · God hath two gardens, the Church Catho– like is his garden, and every partic~lar Church a·re gardens ~md beds of fpices, in regard th:tr many Chrifiians are fowne there that Chrift:s l · foule deliphts in, as in fw~et fpices. This was 1 . fpoken of before at large m chapter 5. I. why 1 the Church is called a garden being a fevered pl~ce from the waft : the Church. is fevered from the wilderneffe of the world in Gods care and love, likewife bee tends ;~nd Wfeds his Church and g~rden:as fort he waft ofthe world, he is content the wildernetfe !hould have barren plants : but he will not endure fuch in his garden; therefore thofe that give themfelves liberty to 13e naught in the Church of God, he will have a time to root them out: Trees that are not for fruit, ih:1ll be for the fire,and above ail oth~r Trees their doome fhall be the heaviefi that Luk.q. I ' i I ! The folly an grow in Gods garden without fruit, that fig-tree madm offocb iliaIIbe cur fed. Wb() plead thry\ M } ( d • h r: • h l '11 f are f}icrs anti _ ~n are p.ea e WJt ~Uh wenng t e )t .o ac1 ptanrr of a 1 Jr/ cufanon agamlhhem thusJare we not bapttzed ~ \ garrle~ w~ilcft' and doe we notcot.nero Church,. &c. what.dQe . 1 theylt'l:'e rn altl D d · propharewefle. -- . 3 . ____you ; . . I
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