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Three partes of Salomon his Song of Songs, expounded The first part printed before: but now re-printed and enlarged. The second and third partes neuer printed before. All which parts are here expounded and applied for the readers good. By Henoch Clapham.; Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon. English. Clapham.
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Clapham, Henoch.
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after the eating Before the eating it was to be slaine Which argued that there was no redemption to the Israel of God from captiuity of Hels Pharaoh but by the death of Messiah Secondly the blood was to be dashed vpon the dores cheeke-posts and aboue Which well might import the dore of our soule needefully to be sprinkled from an euill conscience for keeping away the reuenging Angel Nor can we be so sprinkled but by the blood of Iesus Hebr. 9.14 10.22 Thirdly the flesh thereof was to be roasted with fire Which well representeth the scortching ire of his fathers indignation burning against him by the greatnesse whereof hee was forced to sweat blood yea to cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 2 In the eating consider first the Parties secondly the Thing The Persons were the same family whereto they might â—oyne some other in case themselues could not eate vp the Animall In one sufficient family might well be shadowed forth that one Catholike Church of God ioyned vnto one Christ. And in two families vnited might well be tiped out the fewer of Iewes and the moe of Gentiles called together for making one body to Christ that so they without vs should not be made perfect Hebr. 11.40 For that they were to eate it was not onely a part but the whole with head feete and purtenance By Head and Feete some Antients do vnderstand the Diuinity and Humanitie of Christ both which are spiritually swallowed of the true belieuer whereas Heretikes oft are found to swallow but the one As our Arrians that for essence onely holds him Man and the Anabaptists that make him onely in substance God But thereby may be further meant that the higher things of Christ and the lowest things of Christ with euery thing or circumstance appertaining to the Word made flesh it should of euery christian Church be receiued by faith and digested by practise Which aptly reprooueth such as affecting high-points do reiect rudiments or affect rudiments so as they despise to be led on to perfection or affecting higher and lower points doe contemne circumstances Whereas the least thing in Christ Iesus is to a faithfull Israelite right sanable 3 After they had eate looke if any thing remained it was to be consumed in fire What is this except when there is something concerning the mysterie of Christs incarnation which wee cannot vnderstand and penetrate that then in all humilitie wee leaue it to the power of the Holy-Ghost Touching the ceremonies first of standing secondly hauing a staff in the hand thirdly of eating it hastily fourthly with bitter herbs and fiftly shodde they seeme all of them to be appropriated only vnto their eating of the Passouer in Aegypt and in the wildernesse at least not agreeing to their time of Rest in Canaan For as then ceremonies did tipe forth the readinesse and speede they were to make thence vpon the Lords Call it being a land as the ceremonies also taught of vn-rest and bitternesse so our Sauiour who came not to breake but fulfill euery iot of the law he with his disciples is found sitting and aside leaning in the passouer And here I prosecute onely that which after the institution remained the same to that Church after Into which order of continuing-ceremonies it is generally thought of Hebrue Doctors that the dashing of blood vpon the dores cheekes and vpper-post may be referred This briefly of the Pass-ouer in whose place wee haue our Lords Supper the Signe changed but the thing signified still continued Lect. XXXIIII Manna MAnna shall be the next Sacramentall exhibitiue shadow Of which Manna thou hast the narration in Exod. 16.12 13 14 c. and briefly thus it is Israel murmuring at their want of bread in the wildernesse the Lord rained from heauen a bread white like to hoare-frost but proportioned like Coreander seede This breade they gathered for fortie yeares together one iust moneth onely excepted Exodus 12. 14.4 Iosh. 5.11.12 in the weeke sixe dayes euery day an Omer or Gnomer full but the sixt day double measure for seruing them also in the Sabbaot wherein it rained not Which bread as they were to gather but for the day and thereof he that had gathered more had nothing ouer and he which had gathered the lesse had no lacke so being reserued beyond the commandement vntill the next day loe it was full of wormes and stinking For the better vnderstanding and vse whereof I will obserue first the Name secondly the place from whence it came thirdly the externall resemblance fourthly the time of gathering it fiftly the measure thereof to the Gatherer sixtly God his iudgement vpon the abuse thereof But hereof so as the mysticall vse thereof may also therewith be vttered 1 For the name of this bread it is MAN or Mannah and the terme is giuen by Israel vnto it what time they first see it Touching the signification of the word Man two sorts of people conclude diuersly The one sort are such as reade Israels speach Man huâ— interrogatiuely so What is this The other sorte is such as reade the speach affirmatiuely thus It is Man or It is a gift These that reade interrogatiuely doe make the word MAN in proprietie to be a Syriake word in English valuing What. And that course is followed of the old Latine translatour who as appeareth in my old written-bible both putteth downe the text and in the text also coucheth his owne significatiue opinion thus Man hu quod siguificat Quid est hoc Man hu which signifieth What is this This his opinatiue signification he might with more modestie haue put into the margine and not therewithall to ad vnto the text Pagniâ— turnes it It is man Arias Montanus crosse-wise turnes it What 's this But what haue we to doe in Exodus with Syriake phrase Israel in Moses speaketh onely Hebers language and therefore Man hu if read interrogatiuely must be Is it a gift if affirmatiuely which reason rather euinceth then thus It is a gift For Man of Manâ—h is in Hebrew a Portion or gift and here it is such a portion to Israel as they were to acknowledge it the free gift of God And what did this Mannah or gift leade them vnto To no other thing then Christ who is giuen of God the Father vnto vs for feeding our soules in this worlds wildernesse while we are trauailing towards the true land of Rest wherein shal nothing dwel but Righteousnâ—sse In which respect the Apostle in 1. Cor. 10.3 doth call Manna spirituall meate and our Sauiour himselfe in Ioh. 6 3â— 35. doth plainely expound himselfe to be that bread of life which was shadowed by the perishing Manna Wherein Cyrill well thus sâ—ith Sensibile illud Manna Intelligibiâ—e hoc figurabat That sensible bread did figure forth this Intelligible bread And Augustine hath this Quicunque in Manna Christum intellexerunt eundem quem nos cibum
Christ and his Church Hold forth the word of life and Satan stampes his Angelles frette his marked souldiers biâ—â— the bridle In it they behold Christ ascended and Satan descended the faithfull rising and themselues falling It was some glorie for the souldiers of Berke to haue liberty to departe their town with Auntients displaâ—ed with armor on their backes with their bullets in their mouthes But Michaels aduersaries were depriued of all glorie For he entred into the house and bound Satan he cast him and his Angells out of the Churches heauenly places he ascends leading captiuitie captiue and giues gifts vnto men euen to all his faithfull followers No maâ—uell now though the behold of these victorious colours do smite a coldâ—feare into them as Israels antients did appall the Kings of the Nations Nor maruel though Spains Balak fret though Romes Bâ—laam be willing to curse for if the colours of Christ his blood-shed be euer displaid for a sufficient ransome their Euphrates dries vp their Pardons may goe packe their purgatories fire is quenched and all their trumperies ouer-turned Secondly whereas shee saieth that his banner ouer her was Loue it is for that in his word preached his seuerall loues are displayed euen as in flags oft times are painted the Conquerouâ—s seuerall triumphs or instruments of victorie Daniel drawes in the Persians armes a Beare with three ribs in his mouth because of his conquest in three coasts Iudas Macabeus is said to haue in his standart these foure lines M.C.B.I. representing foure Hebrue words which are in English O Iehouah who is like to thee among the Gods Exod. 15.11 signifying thereby that none but Iehouah could deliuer in the day of battle London hath in Armes a Dagger for putting in minde that by the stab of a dagger a Maior of this cittie arrested the Traitour Iacke-Straw wherewith that disordred troupe of his was dissolued For Messiahs banner it is Loue that is in it namely his word is expressed the signes of his Loue. For in his flâ—g thou maist see a red-crosse in a white field that is the blood of Christ Iesus mâ—king the garments of our conscience white There thou maist see a crowne of thorne piercing his head for curing our senses nailes boring his hands for saluing our actions his feete smit through for sanctifying our affections water and blood issuing out of his side for washing vs wholy his body full of lashings for our sinne his face spit vpon for making vs glorious Loe his Loue the ensigne of his loue displaid ouer vs for prouoking vs to praise and faithfull obedience So farre the Narration Lect. V. THe Petition followeth in the next verse A petition I call it not because it containeth onely matter of request for Petitions to Princes seldome doe that but because her principall act in it is prayer for otherwise as the Lords praier is concluded with a reason of prayer to God For thine is the Kingdome c. so this verse containeth first matter of Request then a Reason of that request The matter supplicatorie is vttered in two branches first in saying Stay ye me with flagons then in these words Comfort me with apples the Reason of herso earnest prayer is this For I am sicke of Loue. The thing she requesteth is spirituall sustentation and strength compared with Flagons of wine and the sauour of apples How comfortable wine is to the heart and the sauour of pleasant apples to the sense such is the sense of Messiahs louesome graces to his Church The false church hath her wine of fornication and apples of idle inuentions whereafter hir idolatrons soule lufteth Vnto that idolatrous wine and windie puffing fruite this of the faithfull is opposed for as the other deriues their adulterate stuffe from Antichrists ministers termed spiritually Marchants for selling of mens soules so the true Church hath her banquet from the ministers of Christ who propine such spirituall graces for the comfortable strengthening of her soule To them she crieth Stay ye mee comfort mee for shee speakes in the plurall number because the ministers of the church are called to be pillers for supporting the weake And with the Lords spirituall delicacies are they chiefly trusted to the end they may be faithfull dispensators thereof As the wise-hearted will call for comfort at no ministers hand that is not of Christ and a Seruitour in this Banquet-house so neither will desire any other word or sacrament then her Bâ—loued Messiah hath incommended vnto them And these Ministers must also see that they deliuer no other thing to the people as did that great Steward of Iesus who thus to the Co. in thâ— saith That which I haue received of the Lord I also haue deliuered vnto you No wine will truely comfort the heart that is not of Iudahs elect vine nor any fruit reuiue the fainting soule that is not as before of this tree of life But if my iudgement may of the learned be wel taken I would with Arias Montanus turne the Hebrue according to the letter thus Vnderprop me in the Flagons comfort me in the apples that is amidst the flagons amidst the fruite for the text hath not the particle eth with but the letter Beth which fignifieth in among amidst sooner then with The sense so should be this O my Welbeloued Vouchsafe that thy ministers may cheare and strength me who am readie to faint and sound amidst this diuine banquet my senses being ouer weake to sustaine the strong odour of thy graces For as a weake person will be readie to sound in feeling the sauour of Muske and strong spicerie euen so a Neophyt or one of small experience in diuine contemplations will be quickly cast into a muse and a maze vnable to stand in their spirituall place without the assistance of Christs ministers But the sense I leaue to the Churches censure The Reason of her petition is drawne from her present sickenesse enlarged from the cause thereof namely Loue. This sickenes growing from Loue let vs consider first what Loue is It is an Affection or Motion whereby the heart is instincted with desire of some good thing after the fruition whereof it doth as it were lift vp it selfe and open the gates for receipt of that Good which to the Sonle is first propounded Of right loue I speake As for false loue more rightly lust it is in like sort stirred but by the consideration of a thing supposed good The cause of so stirring the heart is some Obiect propounded to the Sense and by the sense presented to the heart The Obiect which here so smiteth sense and delighteth her heart it is first the sight of his Loues portraicted in his Banner secondly the feeling or tasting of his banquet the varietie of his sweete graces And because her soules eye the minde could no more sustaine the glittering shine of his loue then Leahs naturall eie were enabled with stedfastnes to behold the Sunne-shine