Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	adversity_n	bear_v	brother_n	812	5	7.0506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37032	Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon by James Durham ...	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1668 (1668)	Wing D2802; ESTC R17930	380,359	486

Spices c. Yea 2. like such Gold Lilies and Ivory as are not in the world and finally she hath left and given over comparisons and betaken her self to the abstract sweetnesse it self yet all comes short and she must quite the thing as unexpressible It 's the very hight of souls love-rhethorick to close with a kind of holy amazement and admiration which ends in silence because they cannot say enough when they have said all they can say O what a lovely Object then must Christ Jesus be They never knew him rightly who were satisfied with their own apprehensions of him or expressions concerning him 3. There is an universal lovelinesse in Christ whole Christ is lovely neither is he to be divided in our apprehension and esteem but as every thing in him is wonderful and lovely so is it to be admired and loved even his lowest sufferings and seeming infirmities his frowns and seeming greater austerity are lovely and profitable he is altogether lovely 4. There is a wonderful desirablenesse in our Lord Jesus and incomparable satisfaction to be gotten in him there can be nothing more to draw a soul to love it than what is here whatever may be attractive is here and there is nothing wanting to satisfie the soul that injoyes him and hath yielded to his call to such he is all desires 5. Christ is never rightly taken up so long as any thing desirable is supponed to be gotten elsewhere he must be all desires and therefore where any thing hath the least share of the affections beside him he hath not his own place 6. Empty and undesirable are all beloveds in the world befide Christ and broken cisterns will they all prove and it 's no marvel for all desires are in him and therefore not one desirable thing is or can be found in them 7. They have a good bargain who have Christ It 's the short cut to say so and compendious way to happinesse and to the inheriting of all things to unit with Christ by faith and to possesse him for all desires are in him and miserable will the persons be who shall misse Christ although they were gainers of the whole world Having somewhat answered the daughters of Ierusalem their question by insisting in this excellent description of Christ now by way of application and holy boasting in the close of the verse she reasons thus Ye asked what my beloved was more than other beloveds and for your satisfaction I have described him as I can many several ways though all fall very far short of full expressing of his matchlesse worth Now saith she this excellent person is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Ierusalem bring all other beloveds and compare them with him and see if he be not the chiefest and standard-bearer amongst them all and in this confident boasting of the excellency of her beloved she closes Which sweet discourse wants not it's fruit on them as we will see in the Chapter following Consider the words four wayes 1. In the matter they hold forth two sweet relations betwixt Christ and the believer and this sweetens all not only that this beloved is an excellent person but that he was hers she saith he is my beloved and also my friend he is her friend as she is his friend vers 1. that is one that is friendly to her and will do for her beyond what a brother or mother or the nearest of all relations will or can do he is one that is born for the day of her adversity and one whom she trusts as her own soul he is so dear to her and she to him for this ●ye of friendship is mutual betwixt them In a word saith she he is much in himself and much to me unspeakably excellent in himself and very dear and precious to me my husband and my friend In sum my friendly husband and my loving friend Obs. 1. There are many sweet relations that Christ ●stands in to the believer as husband friend brother c. even as there are many relations that she stands in to him as spouse sister dove c. 2. Christ fills all the relations that he stands in to his people and that exceedingly well he is a singularly loving faithful kind and tender husband and a singularly kind faithful unchangeable friend the best friend that ever a believer had for the expression this is c. saith that what Christ is he is indeed and singularly so as having no equal he is a matchlesse husband and friend this is the scope 3. Christ and the believer are upon one side they are friends there is a league of friendship betwixt them and they have common friends and common● ad●ersries 4. These who are Christ's friends as vers 1. eat O friends Christ may be claimed by them as their friend and what that can●infer they may expect from him for he hath no bare title neither sustains he any empty relation 5. Believers should lean much to Christ trust him and expect good from him as their friend 6. It 's a notable and singular consolation for solks to have Christ their friend it 's comfortable in life death and judgement in prosperity and adversity It implyes these things in which he is forth-coming to his friends 1. Constant kindnesse and faithfulnesse at all times he loves at all times Prov. 17. 17. and chap. 18. last he never fails nor can at any time be charged with that which Absalom casts up to Hushai 2 Sam. 16. 17. Is this thy kindnesse to thy friend 2. Sympathy and condescending to supply their wants he cleaves closer than a brother Prov. 18. 24. It 's such a love as one hath who aimeth at his friends good as well as his own 3. Familiarity in mutual communion as useth to be betwixt friends and freedom in conversing as Exod. 33. 11. the Lord spoke with Moses as a man doth with his friend 4. It takes in a mutual confidence that one may have in another as in his very own self and more than in any other all which are eminently in Christ as ointment and per●ume rejoice the heart so doth the sweetnesse of a man's friend and eminently of this friend by hearty counsel Prov. 27. 9. No other friends are comparable to this friend happy happy for evermore are they whose friend Christ Jesus is 7. Where Christ is a friend there is he also the souls beloved or believers choising of Christ for their beloved and his being kindly to them as a friend go together these two relations my beloved and my friend are never separat Now to be the souls beloved implyes these things 1. That comparatively Christ is eminently and only loved by his people and nothing is admitted to share in their affections with him Phil. 3. 8. 2. That there is in the soul an high esteem of him which begets this love 3. That there is such an ardent affection to him as makes them long for union with him