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A01971	An exposition of the Song of Solomon: called Canticles Together with profitable obseruations, collected out of the same. Perused and published by William Gouge, preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.	Finch, Henry, Sir, d. 1625.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 12113; ESTC S103279	60,898	144

instructions comforts and consolations Out of thy tongue that milke of the Word is ready to come forth thy smell is odoriferous thine outward carriage and behauiour sweete amiable and full of grace VERS 12. A gardaine enclosed my sister spouse a spring shut a fountaine sealed vp Thou keepest thy selfe most chast vnto me ' and thy fruits sound and entire as a gardai●e closed as a spring shut vp as a fountaine sealed for in thee is the cestern of that wholsom and fauing doctrine whereby the parts of the field or gardaine of my Church the beddes and plantes particular congregations are all watred and which no stranger can haue accesse vnto for none entreth thither but in and thorough me VERS 13. Thy plants are as of an orchard of pomegranets with fruit of precious things as Cypres with Spicknard VERS 14. Spicknard and Safron sweete Canes and Cinamon with all trees of Frankinsence mirrh and Santales with all the chiefe spices To conclude thy plants meaning the fruits of faith are most precious as an orchard stored with all precious and delicate fruits CHVRCH VERS 15. O fountaine of the gardains O Well of liuing waters and flowing more then the waters of Lebanon The Church ioying in her spouses thus gracious accepting of her doth first modestly attribute all she hath to him Doest thou call me a spring and fountaine giuest thou me the name of a gardaine Vouchsafest thou mee such honour that my fruits should bee esteemed as sweete spices O but how soeuer I may in some sort disperse vnto mine the waters of life yet thou in truth art the onely fountaine from whose fulnesse we all receiue I water but from thee thou art the onely well of liuing water out of the which I doe drawe thou art the wind and comfortable ayre that purgest thy gardaine makest seasonable times raine and faire weather as is most commodious and best for the manurance of it I whatsoeuer I haue meate drinke or any thing else it is all of the gift of thy hand my life and sauing health I haue and hold from thee VERS 16 Awake O North and com O South breath vpon my gardaine Let those waters ouerflow the spices of it Let my well-beloued come vnto his gardaine and eate his dainty fruits Wherefore saith she deny not these two things vnto me blesse me yet more with all spirituall blessings Let thy windes blow vpon my gardaine and those liuing waters ouer flow my beddes and spices Secondly come and dwell with me feast and make merry in the middest of my soule and conscience for euen heere also as well as in Heauen thou hast as thou sayest a gardaine CHRIST VERS 17. I am com into my gardain my sister spouse I gather my mirrh with my spice I eate my hony-combe with my hony I drinke 〈◊〉 wine with my milk Eate fellow friends drinke and bee dronke O yee my well-beloued O no saith hee you know not what you aske that were nothing good for you and hurtfull to many other for yet til the marriage day doe com my place is to be in heauen with the infinite thousands of holy Angels and spirits of the righteous that are deceased where I in them and they in me take incomparable pleasure delight and where I welcome and entertaine most louingly with all dainties and delightfulnesse the faithfull soules whom I dayly take out of this transitory world into euerlasting glory CHAP. V CHVRCH VERS 1. I being asleepe but my heart awake heard the voice of my wellbeloued bounsin● open to mee my sister my fellow friend my doue my vndefiled one for my head is filled with de●●e my locks with the droppes of the night WE come now to the second part of this booke which is the falling out between Christ his Church The fault whereof is first of al laid where it was in the Churches vnkindnes to him which she her selfe stic●eth not to acknowledge that it grew from her owne drowsinesse and carnall security Although thus farre to bee excused that it was thorough weakenesse and humane frailety against her owne heart and liking not with that full swing of sinne that the wicked giue themselues scope to runne into nor with all her heart and soule The spirit being alwaies ready to doe his part though the fleshe were weake Her faith was smothered it was not put out yet this one sinne as the nature of such things is went not alone it was accompanied with a multitude of other sinnes reiecting him so scornefully who with his owne lacred v●ice spake vnto her to arise from the sleepe of sinne and to awake vnto righteousnesse and yet could not preuaile What might be done that hee did not to reclaime and bring her home For the manner of his comming it was not only knocking but bounsing at the dore of her heart by the ministery of his Word vehemently ernestly more then once The thing he did desire small in it self so easie for her to graunt as nothing could bee more onely to open and to let him in He spake so kind●ly so louingly in such a gentle and so earnest a manner as might haue moued a heart of flint gaue her such and so many so sweete and so honourable titles all with one breath my sister my friend my doue mine vndefiled one bestowed such care and diligence to compasse his desires as if it were his own good that he sought and not hers Hee bearing all the infirmities of our nature and the inconueniences of this life compared to the night in regard of the life to come refused to vndergoe no perill nor wearisomenesse or incommodity of weather no toile or trouble for her sake to goe by day or by night early in the morning or late in the euening in faire of foule weather in the dewe and in the raine his head and his haire his skull and his locks all beesprinckled and wet that what heart not made of stone could be so vnkinde to let him stand without in the raine and in the dangers and hazards of the night VERS 2 To whom I answered I haue put off my coate how should I put it on I haue washed my feete how should I foule them Yet for all that euery vaine pretence euery fond and friuolous excuse was enough to keep her from admitting Christ and from opening the dore vnto him that dore of her heart whereby through a true and liuely faith Christ doth make an entrance and is receiued and more and more fruitfully applied vnto vs. A manifest argument what small account sh●e made of him and how little shee set by the inestimable good that he came to bring vnto her preferring a little ease and daintines before the pleasures that are in him Shee thought it for sooth a matter of no small adoe to put on her coate againe and rise when once she was abed for feare of catching cold she was loath to touch the ground with her feet now they wer

him forth but Christ hath many Crownes and diadems vpon his head Solomon in his excellency and the crowne of his glory was a spectacle worthy to bee looked vpon and admired but Christ to be worshipped honoured and adored not of the maidens of Ierusalem onely but of the whole hoast of heauen Solomons heart leapt for ioy the day thht he was contracted but Christ is anointed with the oyle of gladnesse aboue his fellows with a heape and variety of gifts and graces more then all men or Angels So farre is he to be preferred CHAP. IIII. CHRIST VERS 1. Behold thou art faire my fellow friend behold thou art faire thine eies are doues eies from betweene thy locks thy haire is like a flocke of Goates which sheare vpon mount Gilead CHRIST here comforteth the Church against that anxiety of minde which appeared in the former Chapt. shewing how gracious she is vnto him how beautifull in his eies not for any bodily but for her spirituall bewty Whether you consider her wholy and entirely being all faire or her members and lineaments one by one eies haire and locks teeth lippes temples her neck and both her breasts all in that comlinesse and proportion as is fit both for the discharge of the great duty of the ministery and the common duty of christianity Her eies first how chast they are how simple how douclike if you consider eyther the faithfull Minister the eies and lights of the Church whose care is to present vs chast and pure virgins vnto Christ or the eie of iudgement in euery Christian which maketh the whole body lightsome and keepeth them single and sincere in all things Againe how comely they are within her locks seemelily turned vp for such is both the Churches decency reiecting all toyish ceremonies and the graue and sober cariage of euery Christian And this haire so goodly shining smooth as of fat Goates that feede in fruitfull pastures these ceremonies this carriage orderly sober decent bring that reuerence to a Christian that comlinesse to a Church as make them both gracious VERS 2. Thy teeth are like a flock of euen shorn sheep that come vp from the washing which all of them doe bring forth twinnes and there is not a miscarrying one among them VERS 3. The lips are like a threed of skarlet and thy talke is comely thy temples within thy locks are as a peece of pomegranet VERS 4. Thy neck is as the towre of Dauid built for armories a thousand targets hang therein all shields of mighty men VERS 5 Thy two brests are as two young hindes the twins of a roe which feede among lillies Goe vnto her teeth they are equall shining dowblerewed whereby she cheweth the meate of heauenly doctrine both for her selfe and others The Law of grace is in her skarlet lippes speaking things comely and for edification Temples like a rose to see to of the hew of a Pomegranet bending beyond the haire So naturall is her bewty and her face her owne for what needeth shee the dyings or colourings of worldly glory to set forth her spirituall bewty or of humane wisdome to adorne the simplicity of the Gospell Is her face onely and the parts thereof worthy to bee commended doe not the rest as well excell her neck of holy discipline and gouerment to assist the ministery of the Word and that compleat armour of proofe which euery christian fighteth with holdeth her vp and keepeth her steddy more strong then all the weapons of any tower or armourrie can doe Lastly her pappes plumpe round faire are ●full of all good nourishment of the sincere milke of the word of God that flowes as from a streame out of both her brests of that olde and the new Testament VERS 6. Till that day breath and these shadows flie away I will get mee vnto the Mountaine of Mirrh and to the hill of frankinsense This description done and made an end of now to satisfie her request he promiseth that notwithstanding till the mariage daie doe come when the mistes of sinne ignorance and afliction that are cast in this world before the eies of the Church shall fleete away he must keepe his residence and aboade in Ierusalem that is aboue where are his friends who performe vnto him duties sweeter then mirrh and frankinsence VERSE 7 Thou all faire my fellow friend and not a spot in thee VERS 8. With me from Lebanon my spouse with mee from Lebanon shalt thou come thou shalt looke down from the top of Amana from the top of Shenir and Hermon from the dennes of Lyons from the mountaines of Leopards Yet he will euer be present with his Church by his Word and the power of his spirit sanctifying and cleansing the same vntill being all faire without any spot or wrinckle in her and so fitted and made ready for the wedding day he do receiue her as his spouse that is to say a wife ioyned and married to her husband for so he is bould now to call her in regard of that prefixed time into euerlasting life and crowne her with glory and immortality At what time he saith he will redeeme her wholy and euery part so as not one whom the Father hath giuen vnto Christ shall perish from the most remote places and borders of the Land and out of the clawes of Lyons and Leopards her most cruell fierce barbarous and sauage enemies VERS 9. Thou hast rauished my heart my Sister Spouse Thou hast rauished my heart with one of thine eyes with one chaine of thy necke The remembrance of this day and of the perfection she now hath in his iudgement estimation of her and then shal actually haue by his benefit bestowed vpon her maketh him to cry out in the passion and vehemency of his loue calling her Sister as being of one nature also his married spouse professing shee hath rauished his heart with the bewty of her lookes with the ornaments of her graces that are as chaines about her neck yea with one looke of faith with that one grace of his sanctifying spirit in her VERS 10. How faire are thy loues my sister spouse how good are thy loues better then wine and the smell of thine ointements better then all spices Amplifying with exclamations the excellency of her loue better then wine and the sweete sauour of her ointements the annointing of his spirit sealing her vp to the day of redemption better in sense and feeling then all spices VERS 11. Thy lips my spouse drop the hony-combe Hony and milke are vnder thy tongue and the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Lebanon Thus hauing declared the feruency of his loue vnto her hee doth by many figures and formes of speech expresse the sweetenesse and the ornaments of her faith and of the fruits that proceed from it Thy lippes saith hee both of them that is in the publique ministery in priuate speech droppe the hony and the hony-combe sweete and heauenly lessons and

constant in euery part because it wholly resteth in the power and grace of God Let there be 60. Queenes c. All the glory excellency in the world the courts of Princes and their pompous traine are not to bee compared to the happinesse of a Christian That one c. There is but one company society in the world wher saluation is to be had that is the Church of God which is one because there is no more but she one because she is only entirely beloued of God my done One because she is elect out of all the world mine vndefiled one One because shee keepeth her selfe one and the same vnto her spouse pure chast and vndefiled that one with her mother To this Church euery Christian man ioyneth himselfe and professeth to be a member thereof neuer making rent schisme nor diuision from it those that goe out from it it is a token they were in truth neuer of it assoone as they see c. God in his Church vtereth all his glorie Psal 29. That is hee graceth his people with such blessings of his spirit as makes them an admiration to the world This is the priuiledge of those that dwell in the Church of God the maydens shall account her blessed the Queenes and Concubines shall praise her The profane worldlings are forced to preferre the state of Gods children before their owne and to wish they vvere like vnto them As Saul Pharaoh Balaam and other did Goodly as the morning faire as the moone pure as the Sunne The way of a righteous man is like the Sunne shining that shineth still more and more vnto the steddie day Prou. 4. 18. Or as Paul saith Rom. 1. 17. we goe from faith to faith our faith continually growing as the morning doth and from one degree of perfection to an other from the beauty of the moone to the cleerenesse of the Sunne To the pruined gardaines The kingdome of God the glorie of the heauenly Ierusalem is that which we ought alwaies to meditate of and to haue the eyes of our soules fixed and bent vpon beeing like the gardaines that are kept dressed most pleasant and goodly to the eye and that yeeld all sweet and delectable fruit I went downe Christ himselfe by his example inuiteth vs to take pains to watch and obserue the time of his comming whereunto he doth exhort Math. 24. 42. To see the greene plants of the valley to see if the Vine flourished if the Pomegranets budded By earthly things wee must learne to meditate on heauenly and if wee be able to discerne of the times and seasons of the yeere that when wee see the trees to put forth leaues wee know Summer is neere is it not a shame to haue a lesse insight into those things that are the signes and forerunners of the comming of the Sonne of God to iudgement This wisedome our Sauiour teacheth vs. Matth. 24. 32. 33. There be manie signes of this glorious comming of Iesus Christ for which see that whole chapter Mathew 24. When I discerned it not my minde set me Christ loueth not to be longer absent from vs then needs he must vpon my free hearted Christian men are free-hearted people and of a willing minde seruing Christ cheerfully ioifully readily Psalm 110. not of necessity or constraint peoples chariots In such doth Christ delight to dwell to be borne vp by them to haue them for his chariots 2. Corinth 9. 7. God loueth a cheerefull giuer Returne The voice and calling of Christ is the meanes of our conuersion Returne ô Shull c. returne returne Who calleth vs earnestly continually to come vnto him and not to delay nor put it off for that doth the doubling and trebling and fowre times repeating of the word returne import O Shulamite Yea he vseth all manner of kind and louing speeches to perswade as O my Shullamite or my perfect one for all which see before Chapter 5. 1. A Christian man is perfect by the imputation of Christs righteousnesse perfect also with an Euangelicall not a legall perfection that is to say of a sound and vpright heart longing for perfection euen in regard of their renued holinesse or sanctification that we may behold thee Sinne obscureth Gods graces in vs and maketh that Christ hath no delight to looke vpon vs but faith and repentance restoreth vs to his fauour What behold you in that Shulamite as the daunse of the Machanaijmites Christ comforteth his soule by the beholding of our holinesse and righteousnesse How bewtifull c. Yea he boasteth and reioyceth of it so is there ioy in heauen for sinners that repent Luke 15. 7. O daughter of a Prince The excellencie of a christian standeth in this that hee is born again and by faith become the sonne of the great king that life of the spirit incompatably more excelling the life of a naturall man take the godliest and the gallantest then that excelleth the life of a bruite beast Let not c. There is not anie thing more pleasing to him then the spread of the Church of God and a continuall encrease of the fruites of it which are as glorious in his sight as a heape of wheate hedged about with I●illies Let not the liquor faile But let thy belly be c. The duties required of him are First Faith continually fructifying Thy two breasts c. Secondly A teachablenes to sucke the milke of the word of God Thy necke c Thirdly Constancie to hold vp the truth of God Thine eyes c. thy nose c. Fourthly Iudgement to weigh and discerne of doctrines That on thy head is like skarlet c. Fiftly Grauitie and a wise cariage in all our actions A King might be tyed c. Which good graces being in vs and abounding not onely knit mens hearts vnto vs How faire c. But make God himselfe to loue and to admire vs. I say c The word of Christ ought to be an assurance to vs that wee shall be sanctified more and more howsoeuer when we looke on the one side to the resistances that are against vs and on the other side to our owne weaknes and corruptions wee haue iust cause to despaire But hee that sayd the Word is able for to doe it as casie it is for him to make vs all whole as it was to say take vp thy bedde and walke Ioh. 5. 8. I will get vp vpon the Palme-tree take hold of her branches c. The best man that is hath need of much hand to be continually pruined and lopped and to haue his superfluous branches shred from him to make him fruitfull I will c. This must be the worke of Christ himselfe Who as else where he is compared to a Vine so heere compareth himselfe to the Husbandman that taketh vs in hand to trimme and looke vnto vs Without him wee can doe nothing Ioh. 15. 5. Thy teates shall now be like the clusters of the Vine and the sauour