Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

2.8 I { I Andeat hispleafont fruits, ---:---··---- - ----'----- ten my honey -combe with my honey: I have drunkmy winewithmy milke;eat o ftiends,drinke,yea drinke lliJtmdantly ,o !Jeloved. Which words containe in them, . dnanfwer to the Dejireofthe church, in thelAt• ter part ofthe verfeformerly handled: .4wake · thou North-wind,tmd come thouSouth,&c. l ThenYerf.3 .. is fetforth,The fecun ejlate ofthe 1 ·Churchat this time,Ijleep,but my heart wt~keth, in \ fetting downe whereof,theHoly-Ghofi hereby SolomotJ fhewes likewife, The loving Intercourfe betwixt chrift and tke chrerch ene with another. NowChrifi upon the fecure efiate and condi– tion ofthe Church defires her, To openunto him, rcr.2.Which defire and waiting ofChrifi is put off and fleighted with poore and flender excu– fes, Ver.3. I haveput offmy coat,hQw fottll I put it tm 1 &c. The fucceffe ofwhich excufes is, that Chrifl: feemes to goeaway from her(and indeed to her fight and fenfedeparts) Ver.6. I opmedtomy Be– loved, hut my Belf:Jvedhad withdrawnhimfelfe,&c. Whereupon fhe Iayes about her,is refileff~, and enquires after Chrifi: from the w4tchmen, who ! mifufe, 1'POundhcr,andtakeaw.1-y hervaile.fromher, / . . I ·rer.7. · ·Another lntercomfe in this Chapter here is, That the churchfor aUthugives not cverftttrching ttfter chrift: But asks theDaughtersofIerufalem, what was beaome of her Beloved, Ver.8. and withallinafew words,butfull of lat·ge expref- ~~~11' ' fion, l

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