/ 42~ . • . Iammy Belo'TJeds. SER.XIX. him. Afterwehavewaitedand exPfCted Chrift ' in the ufeofmeanes, Chrifi at length will d!fco.. ver himfelfe to us.And yet more imme:diately it wasafrerthe Church had fo defervedly exalted him in fuch lofty praifes, This is my Beloved, the chiefi of ten thuufond,he is altogether lovely:When we fer our hearts to the high exaltationofChrift above all things in the,world, proclaiming him ' th<chiefi of ten thot~fond, this at the Iaft breeds a gracious difcovery, I ammy Belo'fleds andmy Be... loved i5 mine;for Chrifi when he fees us faithfuiJ, _ and fo Iovipg, that \Vel will not endure hisab– fence,and fo confiantly loving,that we love him notwithfianding fomedifcouragements, it melts him at the lafi, as Iofcph was meltedby his bre~ thren. ~ I ammy EeJoveds andmy Belovedismine. that in orJer In the words you fee a mutuall interefr and ~":~~e c;~1, ownitJ~ between Chrifi and the Church, h?w– though in order foever mthe order of words, the Church fatth, of knowing it I Am my Beloveds fhft ; yet in- order of nature u nor fo. Chrift is ours firfi, though not in orderof difcovery,taere is one order ofknowing,and another c>rder of cauGng, many things are knowne by the dfect,but they iffue from a caufe; I know he is mine, becaufe I am his, I have givenmy felfe to him, I know it is day, becaufethe Sunneisup, there is a proofe from the: dfeGl::fo I know a man is alive)becaufe he walks,there isa proofe of the crau{e by.theeffect, lamhis, I have grace to give t;ny fe,lfe QI) to hirp. ; therefore I know be loves r;nc:, he is-mine; thUs-lfay in order of difcovery, I hut ~----~--------~--~----------~
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