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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85763	Loves entercours between the Lamb & his bride, Christ and his Church. Or, A clear explication and application of the Song of Solomon. By William Guild, D.D. and preacher of God's Word.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2206; Thomason E1583_3	233,317	296

repentance and expressions of her holy love and which is strange the feast that he most delights in is our hungring and thi●…ng after righteousness and such he mutually invites to feast with him Isai 54. 1. but alas we feast him rather with Wormwood and Gall and with such grapes as are spoken of Isai 5. 3. Thirdly we have to consider 1. What this Spikenard is 2. How called hers 3. How it sends forth the smell thereof First then spikenard is a very precious and odoriferous Oyntment as we see Mark 14. 3. Joh. 12. 3. and by which is meant the precious and savory or fragrant graces of Gods Spirit comming from our head of Christ and powred down upon his members like that Psalm 133. 1. which is that Unction whereof John speaks and whereby all true Christians are spiritually annoynted to be a Royall Priesthood unto God 2. This Spikenard is called hers 1. by donation as it is said quid habes quod non accepisti 2. by inhesion because it is gratia gratis data quae nobis inhaeret being sown and rooted in such who are ingraft truly and rooted in Christ but is not ours as if it were either from our selves or like Christs Righteousnesse which is imputed to us and is like Esau's vesture that sweet smelling garment wherewith being clothed we get our fathers blessing 3. This Spikenard is said to send forth the smell thereof when these graces manifest themselves by the fruits or effects and operation thereof in that new obedience which becommeth Christians expressing the vertue of Christs death and resurrection the truth of their conversion the livelinesse of their faith the fervencie of their zeale and the reality of their charity and the like the smell whereof like that Joh. 12. 3. fills every place where it is sent forth ascending upwards to God like that of Noah's sacrifice or Cornelius almes deeds and pleasing him reflecting inward to the conscience rejoycing the same and giving an assurance of our election by welldoing and extending to others as Psal 16. 2. who seeing our good works and getting good thereby do glorify God our heavenly Father Observations 1. We see the great love of Christ to his Church not only in bestowing gifts and graces upon her but likewise familiarly banquetting with her as he sayes Rev. 3. 20. If any man will open unto m●… I will sup with him and he shall sup with me therefore also c. 2. verse 4. it is said he brought me into his banquetting house and his banner over me was love which should teach us to walk worthy of such a favour and ever to have on the banquetting Garment of holynesse unspotted with the flesh 2. By her Spikenard its sending sorth the smell thereof we see that there is no better way to entertain him than with the fruits and fragrant smell of his own saving graces and therefore it is said c 4. v. 16 Let my Beloved come into his garden eat his pleasant fruits so that as it is said of the vertuous woman Prov. 31. 31. give her of the fruit of her own hands and let her own works praise her Or as David said to the Lord 1 Chron. 29. 14. of thine own have we given thee even so give the Lord of the fruit of his own graces planted in thy heart and let his own work thereof praise him But alass the smell we send forth is as that of a filthy puddle which displeases the Lord and provokes him to wrath 3. We see likewise here that what edifying gifts we get from God like so many talents we ought not to keep them close as that improfitable servant did or hiding our light as it were under a bushell but we should do as Mary Magdalen did with her Box of Spiknard precious and costly powre it out for the benefit of others even upon Christs feet Math. 26. and lovvest or meanest members of his body even as that Psalm 133. 2. costly oyntment that was povvred on Aarons head drenched down to the lowest skirts of his Garment Verse 13. A bundle of mirrh is my well be loved unto me He shall lye all night betwixt my breasts Here the Church profestes her spirituall comfort which she had in Christ and of his death and resurrection the feeling whereof is like a sweet odour to a believing soul and which she would be so carefull to conserve and apply in all estates unto her selfe by the work of faith that all the night time of his life or of affliction and tentation noted by a dark time she would make Him her continuall joy and comfort solacing her selfe in him and that he should lye between her breasts and constantly dwell in her heart by Faith and true affection She compares him then to a bundle of Mirrhe or Nosegay such as is usually made of most pleasant and sweet Flowers for delighting sight and smell and which Maidens did set in their bosomes between their breast that so they might have the sweet savour thereof alwaies in their nose In which word we have 1. how she calls him 2. Whereunto she compares him to wit to myrrh and a bundle of myrrh 3. to whom he is so to wit to her 4. where she places him between her Breasts and 5. How long shall he lye there to wit all the Night First then she calls him her beloved whereof v. 7. whom for power and authority before she called a King v. 12. and whose power should confound her if his love did not comfort her and to whom she againe as a King owes loyalty and subjection and as her blessed bridegoom she professes to him love and affection Next she compares him to Myrrh which was one of the gifts wherewith the wise men of the East honoured Christ at his birth Math. 2. with which aloes his body also was imbalmed after his death Joh. 19. 39. and which likewise was the first and speciall ingredient of the holy annointing oyle that vvas appoynted to be made for annoynting Aaron and the Tabernacle with the pertinents thereof being of a svveet and odoriferous smell as the rest of the sweet spices were of that conposition and whereby is signified the sweet comfort that the Christian soul indued with spirituall senses finds in Christ crucisied to whom sinne is first sowre Exod. 30. 23. Neither contents she her self to compare Him only to Myrrh but to a bundle of Myrrh to show unto us 1. the abundance of that spirituall comfort that comes from him to a believing soul as a greater smell is yeelded by a bundle of sweet flovvers or spices than comes from a single flovver or a graine of spice As likewise to shovv 2. that as from every flovver in a bundle there comes a svveet smell even so from every thing considerable in Christ there arises comfort whether we consider his natures or offices his birth and conception his holy life death buriall resurrection and ascention and now his intercession at his

16. 3. Even so the Lord of his free grace out of the corrupted and accursed masse of mankind has separate and chosen a select number to be his Church to dwell in the midst of them by a peculiar and constant presence of grace here and to advance them at last to dwell with him in eternall glory hereafter 3. In respect of Situation firmly founded upon a Mount that cannot be removed as we see Psalm 125. 1. but abideth for ever even so is the Church of God built upon a sure foundation the Rock Christ Jesus against which the gates of Hell shall no-wise prevail 4. In respect of defence and fortification with Mountains round about Walls and Watch-Tovvers as vve see Psalm 125. 2. Isai 62 6. Ezekiel 33 3. Even so as the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people sayes the Psalmist from hence forth even for ever Psalm 125. 2. 84. 11. 5. In respect of compact structure for commodious habitation as we see Psalm 122. 3. Even so is Christ's Church conpactly built Eph. 2. 21. and firmly joyned together by a three fold conjunction 1. Of unity in faith 2. Of externall profession in the truth and 3. Of love and affection 6. In respect of Gods true worship and adoration which was there established and therefore there was the Temple the Lords Priests and sacrifices even so in Christs Church there is the true worship of God in like manner established for which cause it is called 1 Tim. 3. 15. The Pillar and stable place of truth and no where but there is the voyce of the great Shepherd Christ Jesus to be heard nor doth he walk but in the midst of his Golden Candlesticks 7. In respect of her many priviledges and peculiar donations as to be called the Citty of the great King the Lords dwelling place and glory of the Earth and in respect whereof Psalm 87. 3. it is said Glorious things are spoken of thee O City of God Even so great and many are the Prerogatives of the Church of Christ as to be the spouse of the King of Kings cloathed with the Sun crowned with stars trampling on the Moon attended on by Angels having heaven her inheritance and all things to be hers Rev. 12. 1. This Jerusalem here is said to have daughters therfore as we see Gal. 4. 26. She is a mother yea such a mother to her Children as the mother of her head and Husband was to Christ to wit a virgin-mother in whose womb the godly are conceived through the operation of the holy Ghost by the immortall seed of the Word 1 Pet. 1. 23. And borne againe by that new birth whereof our Saviour speaks to Nicodemus John 3. 3. And upon whose breasts they are fed and nourished by that sincere milk of the Word wherof Peter speaks 1 Pet. 2. 2. Having then spoken of those to whom she speaks follows next what it is that she speaks to wit I am black sayes she but comely which speech of hers is by way of concession granting that which they might object unto her concerning her blacknesse but withall showing them that she was comly which blacknesse or rather blackishness howsoever it may be said to befall her because of the infirmities whereunto she is subject in this life so long as flesh and spirit are in her like Rebecca's twins wrastling yet specially this blackness is said to befall her as she shows in the next verse because of persecution and much affliction whereunto she is subject and all such who will live godly in this present World which persecution in the next Verse she calls the Suns looking upon her and which our Saviour Mat. 13. 6. expounds to be such and wherewith the Lord wisely suffers his Church to be exercised for these reasons following 1. To purge her as in a furnace from her drosse and so to further her mortification therfore called a Fiery tryall which the Godly should not think strange to be amongst them 2. To Weane her affection from this World that it may be the more setled on him and that life to come and to make death and her entry into her rest the more welcome when it comes 3. For exercise of her holy gifts and graces as her patience humility love constancy and courage c. 4. For detecting of Hypocrits and Temporizers who in the hour of temptation like chaffe will not abide with the solid graine 5. For manifesting his mighty power to the disappoyntment of Satan and comfort of his own in preserving his Church in the midst of hottest persecution as the bush was where Moses saw the fire or the three Children in the fiery furnace see also Cant. 2 2. 6. Making this also a mean of propagating the Gospell which Satan and his Instruments thereby would impede as a Vine by cutting the same becomes more fr●itfull hence Sanguis martyrum semen ecclesiae and by the dispersion of the Disciples the preaching of the Gospell was the farder spread 7. Hereby likewise the body is conformed to the Head by bearing the Crosse here that she may come to the Crown hereafter for all which former respects the godly have rejoyced in their sufferings and as Philip. 1. 29. counted it a gift or benefit and an honour given them that they were found worthie to suffer with Christ Thus we see the difference between the troubles of the godly especially for righteousnesse and these of the wicked 1. In their nature 2. In the ground wherefrom they come even the Lords great love 3. In their fruit to wit of righteousnesse And 4. In their end The next thing whereof he speaks by way of Apology is that she is comly where we have to consider 1. What this comelinesse is and wherein it consists 2. From whom she hath it And 3. Before whom or in whose sight and estimation she is so But first this would seem to be contrary to a Virgins modesty chiefly to praise her self and say that she was comely and to that humility whereof Salomon speaks saying Let anotherman praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips Prov. 27. 2. But hereunto it may be answered that without violation of that precept of Solomons this may be done in two cases Vel quando ad imitationem requirit hoc utilitas audientis vel ad justam defensionem necessitas loquentis both which we may see in Paul The first Acts. 20. 18. 35. and againe 1 Cor. 11. 1. The second in two whole Chapters 2 Cor. 11. 12 To come then to the first poynt to be handled of her comliness to wit what it is and wherein it consists It is nothing else but that spirituall and inward beauty of Holiness so called Psal 29. 2. and 110. 3. which as is said Ezek. 16. 14. is that comliness which the Lord put upon Her and whereby as the Psalmist Speakes Psal 45. 13. The kings daughter is all glorious