Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

-~~-··· f f _ _}~ ___________ 1a1_11comeinto my Garden. I Th~OrJeroj God; hearing hu chunh. 1. · chrifts anfwerto the churches petition [11 am come into my Garden] z. A Compellation, or DefcriptioA of the chttrch [My Sifter,my Sp6ufl.J 3. chrijlsac(;eptation of. what he had gotten ' there, [I have gathered my myrrhewithmy ./}ice;Ihave eaten my honey·combe with my honey.] 4• There is an invitation ofall Chri.fts friends to a magnifique abundant feafi, [Eat o fiends, drinke,yeadrinkeahundantly, obe– loved.] For the firfi then, in that Chrifi makes fuch a reall anfwer unto the Churches Invitation, I am {ome into my Garden, &c. We fee, That Chrifl: ,comes into his garden. 'Tis much that he that l .hath heaven to delight in,will delight to dwel a. mong the fons offinfull men;but this he cloth for I us,and fo takes notice ofthe Churches Petition. I ' Let my B~lovedcom_e intohis Garden, andeat his pleafont ftuit. The rtght {peech of the Church 1 that gives all toChrift,whowhen fl1e hathmade: frcha Petition,heares it. The Orderisthis. Firft of alL God makes his Church lovdy, plamethgood thingstherein, and then fiirs np in her goodddires;both firndfc topr:Jy from an in– ward gracious difpofition,and holy defi.res : af– ter which, Chrift hearing thevoice0fhis owne Spiritin her, and regarding his owne preparati1 ons,heanfwersthem gracioufly.Whence, in the tfirfi place wemayobferve,That, :o!Jfirv. / God makes tU good, flirres up holy dejires in tU, - and( ---------------------

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