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city_n	aaron_n	jerusalem_n	rod_n	21	3	8.7289	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26545	A paraphrase on the canticles, or, Song of Solomon by the late learned and pious Protestant, Thomas Ager.	Ager, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing A760; ESTC R6006	180,518	449

first teacheth us to be displeased with our selves and so maketh us a people for his glory This is the way of the Lord and thus he feedeth his Lillies and they that well tast hereof are nourished up in peace and comfort With this one argument thou mayest drive the Divel and all his instruments into Hell from whence they came For those words I am thine and thou art mine are not thy words but the words of God thy Heavenly Father who owneth thee and hath given himself unto thee Rest thou therefore in this conclusion and if any quarrel thereat send them to thy Heavenly Father that made the promise and bid them aske him why he look'd upon so vile a person as thou art and why he made the way to life so easy as to believe and live Then shalt thou also find his word to become an hiding place in all storms and a Sanctuary in the day of heat VERSE IV. Thou art beautiful my Love as Tirza comely as Jerusalem terrible as an Army with Banners THese are the words of Christ who beholding the faith of his spouse can no longer hold but breaketh out into this commendation of her thou art beautiful my love And the cause is in regard she sticketh to the true principles of faith whereby she is imputed fair Therefore he telleth her thou art the Royal Diadem thou bearest the renown Which sheweth us clearly wherein the praise of the Church consisteth even in believing and contending for that faith which was once given to the Saints First he likeneth her beauty to Tirza a City where the Kings of Israel did reign and keep their Courts The King was present there which made the City beautiful And that which makes the Church so beautiful in Christs eye is because she liveth in the Kings Court she holdeth Christ by the hand of faith alone Others contend for works first to all those Christ is absent All such do want the beauty of Tirza and may rightly be called Ichabod because from them the glory is departed Next she is commended for her comeliness comely as Jerusalem Jerusalem was comely in regard God himself chose to dwell in it In which City the Temple was built wherein the Ark was kept and also the golden Pot that had Manna which was to shew the wonderful works of God to posterity And Aarons rod that budded which was kept to still the murmerings of the people against the Magistracy and Ministry And the two Tables of the Covenants For these things Jerusalem is said to be comely And also by the Psalmist Psal 48.2 to be fair in Scituation the joy of the whole Earth In these things likewise the praise of this Heavenly City the New Jerusalem consisteth In that she alone liveth in the sight of peace in the sight of the Temple and the Ark hath the right use of her Baptism the true knowledg of the Tables feedeth upon the hid Manna in the Golden Pot and hath the true understanding of Aarons Rod that budded herein lyeth her happiness beauty and glory in that she conformeth in all these things Therefore she is said to be comely and the joy of the whole Earth in that she receiveth and teacheth the free grace of her Redeemer and cheerfully obeyeth him in all things And in that she is Terrible as an Army with Banners it meaneth against all those that are adversaries to her Faith and Doctrine And so Terrible that by this one argument I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine all her adversaries are confounded and driven down to Hell This argument therefore is the Banner of the Church and also a matter of commendation with this Banner must we defend our selves and under it must we rejoyce VERSE V. Turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me thine hair is like a flock of Goats that appear from Gillead IT is as if Christ had said this thou art so beautiful and comely in my sight and so Terrible to all mine adversaries in regard of thy faith and Doctrine that thou hast even overcome me which sheweth us wherein the delight of Christ chiefly lyeth namely in this when the word of God is so understood and stuck unto by faith that by it the Kingdom of Satan may be broken in pieces Now in that Christ says turn away thine eyes from me he meaneth not to another lover but explaineth his meaning in the next words thine hair is like a flock of Goats by which he meaneth the faithful who are likened to hair because even as hair groweth from and hangeth on the head so do they all hang upon their head the Lord Jesus Christ Therefore Christ saith turn about thine eyes to them and Preach the Gospel to them that they also may be strong in the Lord. See Song 4. 2. As also for the Churches Teeth and Temples VERSE VIII There are threescore Queens and fourscore Concubines and Virgins without number BY Queens I understand all those that make separation from the worship of God in Church assemblies These are said to be threescore which is an indefinite speech meaning there are multitudes of them And they are all Queens that is in their own conceit and imaginations they all think themselves so to be The opinion of them all is set down in Esai 47. I am and none else And in Rev. 18. I sit a Queen and am no widow The meaning I conceive is this I am the only Bride or Queen of Christ and there is none else but only those of my way and this is the opinion of every Sect. And their opinion is not only set down but also the reason of it I am no widow Now to be a widow cannot be until the Husband be dead Rom. 7. but when the Husband is dead the woman is a widow And she that calleth her self a Queen They that glory in the Law are condemned by the Law is the Church in her own esteem and her Husband is the Law And in that she glorieth in her married condition it sheweth she is not dead to the Law but under the dominion and power of the Law So that I am no widow is as much as to say I am not divorced from nor dead in respect of the Law but I dilligently follow the works of the Law therefore am I the true spouse or Queen of Christ The sum is she boasteth in the righteousness of the Law because as she supposeth she walketh according to the Law which is the opinion of every Sect. The Concubines are those that do not make a local separation from the Church but live in visible communion with her yet have no part nor share in the inheritance of God For Concubines it seemeth were such as were taken into the Family as appears by Hagar Abrahams Concubine and also by Solomons Concubines yet bare no rule in the Family as Wifes neither did their Children pertake of the inheritance as is to be seen by the