. 416 I ____ · _!_am my.Be/o--pe~r,. ' Ss R..XIX.' fou!e to faile of its expe6l:adon,at lengrh hewill r I I fulfill thedelires ofthemthatfeare him,and this P1a .145. comes o( their patience, grace gr5nyes greater ancl fironger, I held him andwouldnot let him goe 1 emtill I hadbrought him tmto my mothers hottf(.J. Thus you fee how the Spirit expreffc~:h the fame truth in another fl:ate of the Chmch. Comp3re place with place. Togoeon, I ammy Beloveds andmy Be/ovtd is mine. The words th~mfelvesarea paffionare expref– fion of long Iookc for confolation. Affections have eloquence of their owne beyond words;t feare hath aproperexprei1ion,love vents it fdfe in broken words, and fighes, delighting in ape· culiar eloquence futable to the height andpitch ofthe affection, that no words can reach umo,fo that h~re is inore in the words breathed fi·om fuch an inflamed heart then in orclinary conHru– ction can be pickt out (I am my. Beloveds)&c.) comming from a full and large heart, expreffing the union·and communion between Chrifi and That there the Church (efpedally aher a deferrion) I ammv , muft be u·:llm _, d l d .1 I of pn(oils beBel~veas)an. my Be ~ve k mine. . . . fm umon and fufl(l [ly)the umon,vtz.the umon of perfons · crnzmumun .of which is before all comfort and communionof graceswfth GhriJl . grac~s, I am~J Beloveds andmy Beloved u mi~e) ChnHs perfon Is ours, and our perfons are hts; for as it is in 'marriage, if the perfon of thehus– band be not the wives, his goods are not hers, 1 nor his titles of honour ; tor thde come all to 1her:. becaufe his perfon is hers, .he having paffed ! over the right-of his ownc: body, and of his per- ! · · fon 1 _;._,._·~-_....-------:-----"'-----------
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