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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	sleep_v	sow_v	tare_n	1,022	5	12.2153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91908	An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song, commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.	Robotham, John, fl. 1654.	1651 (1651)	Wing R1730; Thomason E639_1; ESTC R206657	461,322	801

there is not only abundance but a redundancy and overflowing of all good things Christ is able yea is willing to doe for us farre more abundantly then wee are able to thinke or speake Ephes 3. 20. Christ doth not bestow some small measure of grace life peace c. on his people but he gives it in abundance It followeth O friends O beloved Christ out of the abundance of his affections doth multiply new titles for his Spouse calling her friend and beloved They that doe his commandements are his friends Joh. 15. 14. Abraham is called the friend of God Isa 41. 8. friendship is the sweetnesse and strength of love therefore he addeth O beloved so plentifull and kind hearted is the Lord that he cannot keep his joy within himselfe but stirreth up his friends and companions to eat and drinke and rejoyce with him Those good things that neither eye hath seene nor eare heard that are above our reach to conceive of are for those that love him 1 Cor. 2. 9. Now in that Christ doth invite his Spouse to this heavenly banquet by new Titles of love and friendship Hence Observe That there is sweet love and friendship between Chaist and his Saints All kinds of love and friendship meet in Christ towards his Spouse and so againe in the Spouse towards him here is the friendship of all relations in the world as of husband brother friend c. here is a free opening his bosome to the Saints and they againe opening of their hearts to him Here 's mutuall delight in one anothers good and happinesse Christ is much delighted in all the good and hapinesse of the Spouse and she is as much delighted in the happinesse and glorie of Christ So much for the fourth Chapter CANTICLES CHAP. V. VERS 1 2 3 4 5 6. I sleep but my heart waketh it is the voyce of my Beloved that knocketh saying open to me my Sister my Love my Dove my Vndefiled for my head is filled with dew and my locks with the drops of the night I have put off my Coat how shall I put it on I have washed my Feet how shall I defile them My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the Door and my bowells were moved for him I rose up to open to my Beloved and my hands dropped with Myrrhe and my fingers with sweet smelling Myrrhe upon the handles of the lock I opened to my Beloved but my Beloved had withdrawne himselfe and was gone My soule failed when he spake I sought him but I could not find him I called him but he gave me no answer The Watchmen that goe about the City found me they smote me they wounded me the keepers of the walls tooke away the Veile from me WEE had in the former Chapter almost nothing but the praises and commendations which Christ giveth to his Church so highly and with so many speeches doth he magnifie and extoll her beauty and her glory and excellency Here in this Chapter we have another manner of song even an accusing and a bewailing Song for here shee accuseth her self and bewaileth her owne unkindnesse and undutifullnesse which she shewed to her most kind and loving Spouse reporting also the great affliction and calamity that came upon her by that meanes And after all this we have the meanes whereby shee recovers her selfe againe In this Chapter observe two things First a complaint of the Spouse which she maketh accusing her selfe for some negligences towards her beloved and this is contained in the six first Verses Wherein also there are two especiall matters delivered unto us First an open acknowledgment of her offence committed Vers 1 2 3 4. Secondly a recitall of the miseries that fell upon her by meanes of her neglect Vers 5 6. The second thing set forth unto us in this Chapter is a familiar parly had betweene the Spouse and such as were her friends and acquaintance who demanding some questions of her the Church instructeth them concerning the state dwelling and mutuall fellowship that is betwixt her and Christ This matter beginneth at Vers 7. and reacheth to the end of the Chapter The questions with the answers thereto concerne two things 1. There is something demanded about Christ himselfe in Vers 8. whereunto there is a large answer beginning at the 9. Vers and holdeth to the 15. wherein the Spouse doth set forth her beloved by many elegant expressions the issue whereof was that the daughters of Jerusalem became likewise enamour'd with him and therefore question the place of his abode the question being contained in Vers 16. and the answer in the two last verses the occasion both of the one and of the other was that vehement charge that the Spouse giveth her friends in the seaventh verse both concerning Christ himselfe and the place where they should find him The first thing that offers it selfe to our consideration is the Churches complaint accusing of her selfe saying I sleep but my heart waketh c. Here is a description of the Churches temptation which is worldly drowsinesse and security wherein to the godly sometimes fall She had enjoyed a comfortable intercourse with Christ but now she falleth into a deep temptation from the strength and prevalency of corruption Hence Observe in the generall That the Spouse is not alwayes in one and the same temper It was not long agoe that the Spouse was in a sweet lovely gracious temper and now on the suddaine shee falls into a fit of drousinesse and security Thus it was with Abraham somtimes strong in faith and somtimes fearfull as when he denyed his wife David was somtimes full of confidence and boldnesse triumphing in the Lord saying Whom shall I feare And somtimes againe I shall one day fall by the hand of Saul So Peter somtimes confident and againe somtimes overcome with feare But to come to the words in particular I sleep but my heart waketh The words containe 1. A Confession I sleep 2. An acknowledgement But my heart waketh These words declare a two-fold condition of the Spouse The one is a sleepy drowsie estate which proceedeth from the flesh and unregenerate part the other a waking or watchfull condition which proceedeth from the spirit of Christ within her I sleep or I sleeping as it is in the Originall these are the words of the Spouse declaring what befell her in the night season while she slept The sleep of the body is a deading and benuming of the outward sences insomuch that it is the very image of death and it is dangerous because when man sleepeth his enemy watcheth as in the parable of the seed When the husbandman slept the envious man sowed Tares Matth. 13. 25. Now we must consider here three things especially 1. What this sleep is 2. Whence it proceedeth 3. What the effects thereof be 1. We cannot understand this of a bodily or naturall sleep for the Spouse is considered according to her heavenly and spirituall birth and therefore must