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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

off all euill and all meanes and occasion of euill which heere exhorting he promiseth and in promising he exhorteth his seruants the ministers of the Church not to be slack to doe that so shee may enioy perfect peace and pleasure and all kinde of happinesse VERS 16. My welbeloued is mine and I am his who feedeth among the Lillies Vpon all which shee concludeth glorying first of her fellowship communion with Christ who as a good shepheard feedeth his with satiety of pleasures and delights that are at his right hand for euermore VERS 17. Till that day breath and these shadowes flie away returne be like my welbeloued to the roe or to the yong hart vpon the seuered mountaines And then wishing his gratious presence that he would come quickely to her and not depart one heates bredth from her to the day of his last most bright appearance when we shall perfectly be receiued vnto the communion of Christ and of all good things in him that so by his blessed presence and the assistance of his Spirit shee may passe thorough and ouercome all the mists and shadowes of sinne ignorance and affliction that come in her way whi●est shee is in this present world CHAP. III. VERS 1. In my bed anights I sought him whom my soule loueth I sought him but I found him not VERS 2 Therefore I said I will rise now and goe about the Citie by the streets and by the high waies I will seeke him whom my soule loueth I sought him but I found him not YEt once more the Church expresseth her affection and longing after Christ the wonderfull desire shee hath to cling neerer and to cleaue faster to him and that in a more passionate manner then euer she did before thinking shee had lost him when most she did enioy him By night and by day vpon her bed and when she was vp at home and abroad within in the Citie by the streets and by the lanes without in the fields with her selfe alone in the secret meditation of her heart and by conference with others First godly bretheren as she met them in euery corner her fellows and familiar friends exercised in the like temptations VERS 3. The watchmen vvhich goe about the Citie found mee to vvhom I said did you see him vvhom my soule loueth Then the publique watchmen of the Citie the Lords remembrancer swhom he hath set ouer thy walles O Ierusalem that all the day and all the night they might not be silent of him euery where and at all times vsing all the meanes from the lowest to the highest she seeketh Christ and can heare no tidings of him That is shee cannot finde him present as she doth desire and to her hearts liking in her owne sense and apprehension though indeed hee be alwaies most present with her VERS 4. It vvas but a vvhile ere I had past from them ti vvhen I found him vvhom my soule loueth I tooke hold of him not to let him goe till I shall haue brought him into my mothers house and into the chamber of her that conceiued me At the last when she least looketh for it and hath passed all the meanes that the excellency may bee from God and not from them shee findeth her hearts ioy him whom her soule loueth Shee claspeth him and layeth fast holde vpon him with purpose not to let him goe till shee haue brought him into her mothers house like an honest and shamefast maiden that will doe nothing in such cases without her mothers priuitie that is till the happy time that the whole Catholick Church shal grow vp in one body to bee presented as a pure virgin glorious vnto Christ VERR 5. I adiure you ye daughters of Ierusalem tarry without with the roes or with the hindes of the field Stirre not vp nor waken this loue vntill he please VERS 6. Who is shee that should come vp out of the wildernesse as it were becensed with smoke that is raised vp becensed with mirrh and incense better then all Apothecaries poulder And now resting in his armes shee desireth to remaine there so long as he shall please that is to say for euer But the vpon the view and muster of his graces she corrects her dulnesse and rapt with admiration O saith shee what doe I meane Am I so foolish to tye Christ vnto my sleeue to wish that he might abide here with me in the wildernes of this world which is so crooked and empty of all goodnesse Should not I my selfe rather though I know the wicked world lookes after no such matter labour to be taken vp from hence by faith into his home and dwelling place and vnto his spiritual marriage bed the heauenly glorie of Gods Kingdome and Ierusalem that is aboue For the sweetnesse of it most fragrant and odoriferous as all becensed with mirrh and incense of holinesse glorie immortallity better then the best perfumes VERS 7. Behold his bed is better then Solomons which threescore strong men stand about of the valiant men of Israell VERS 8. All of them dravving svvord expert in vvarre each hath his svvord by his side for feare anightes For the safety price preciousnesse of matter and worke that exceeds the matter farre beyond Solomons wedding bed though it were most curious for there indeed stood a continuall gard of threescore valiant men with their swords by their sides to keepe the chamber doore for feare of danger in the night But he hath a thousand thousand standing before him yea ten thousand thousand ministring vnto him Thrones Dominions principallities powers other manner of persons in strength and valure VERS 9. Better I say then the bed which King Solomon made him of the trees of Lebanon VERS 10. Whose pillars he made of siluer the beddesteed therof of gold the couerlet thereof of purple The middest of it paued with loue by the daughters of Ierusalem True it is that bedde was made for a King but this for the king of Kings and Lord of Lords the frame there was of Cedars of Lebanon the pillars siluer the bedsteed gold the couerlets purple But heer the very streets the market place is all of pure beaten gold shining as cleer christall Where of shall we thinke by that reckoning that the bedde and furniture thereof is made There the middest was paued most louely with needle-worke heere the ornaments and hangings are the shining glory of God and the Lambe that the daughters of Ierusalem did work this the Father of heauen Thus doth the place where wee shall enioy Christ excell VERS 11. Goe forth and looke ye daughters of Sion vpon King Solomon with the Crowne wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of gladnesse of his heart But if you compare person with person ones ioy with the others triumphes your owne eies will tell you when Solomon was at the highest how infinitely he did come short Solomon indeed had a Crowne that royally set

owne soule God maketh vs in the end of feele more liuely our fellowship with Christ Is mine and I am his The roote and fountaine of all our happinesse is our coniunction and communion with him Who feedeth in Lillies The fruites comming from it excellent for CHRIST our Shepheard feedeth his flocke in most sweete and delicate pastures Till that daie breath The two principall things which a Christian is to wish for and desire after are perfection in heauen by the comming of Iesus Christ and constancie and perseuerance vnto that day And these mistes flie awaie In this life manie mistes and shadowes are cast before our eyes much ignorance of God and of holy duties which that bright and glorious comming of our Lord and Sauiour as the rising of the Sunne will scatter all awaie CHAP. III. VERS 1. 2. In my bed anightes c. THe childe of God hath manie times great vnquietnesse of mind for lack of the feeling of Christ Being so affected as a man desolate and without comfort he seekes after him in al places at all times in the night and by day a bedde and when he is vp at home and without doores in the Citie by the streetes and the lanes and abroad in the fields by prinate prayer and meditation with his owne soule by vsing the helpe counsell and aduise of godly brethren by seeking for comfort at the hands of the Ministers of the word Such is his desire and vnwear●ed trauaile for the finding of Christ Here is the vse wee should make of being priuate and this is a holy spending of our time when we employ it in stirring vp our soules to be assured of the mercies of God in Christ not as the world for the most part doth in studying how to wreake our malice or to compasse other wicked desires neither yet in idle and fruitlesse pastimes himselfe to goe out of himselfe and to be no bodie in his owne e●es But yet hee looketh vnto Christ whose garments of righteousnesse are broade and large and wide enough to couer all imperfections and who of his free grace is pleased to accept him and to bestow vpon him the ornaments of his Spirit whereby howsoeuer in much weakenesse and in the middest of manie fraileties yet in the truth and soundnesse of his heart being sincere and vpright before him albeit the least of these things were enough to discourage him from euer comming vnto Christ or hauing any more to doe with him yet neither for other mens reproaches nor for all the conscience of his owne infirmities hee leaueth to seeke vnto him to call and crie vpon him for whither else should he goe but to things that cannot profit haue made me a keeper of other vines c. There commeth yet a further mischiefe home-enemies borne and bredde in the bosome of the Church which as vipers eat out the bowels of their mother and make naturall rents and breaches among their owne brethren For God euermore leaueth in his Church some vnquiet spirits to gall them for the tryall of the faith of his children that the approued among them may be knowne And let men pretend what they lift set what face they will vpon it it is the hatred of the truth and of the professors of the truth that maketh them so to stirre because worldly minded men cannot abide the sincerity of the Gospell that fighteth against their pompe pride and ambitious designes And howsoeuer they lay the fault from themselues and cast it vpon Gods children that stick close to the ordinances of God as wayward and conceited persons yet in truth they are the factious and those that make diffention in the Church Howbeit the best men that are the holiest Churches and most reformed assemblies are often times turned out of the right waie partly mislead and seduced through a vaine al●urement of humane wisdome partly carried away by the violence of the stormes and tempests that these men raise against them Yet we must not please our selues in the deformities of the Church our care must bee to haue al according to the paterne that was shewed in the mount Shew me where thou feedest c. To this purpose we are wholy and throughout to submit our selues to be ordered by the chiefe shepheard and Bishop of our soules for hee onely must direct all necessarie things in his Church by the wisedome of his Word from him wee receiue the foode of sweete and heauenly doctrine hee it is that orde●eth our labour and our rest euen at noone day the whole gouernment and guidance of his house O thou whom my soule loueth The sins of Gods elect through his wonderfull wisdome that bringeth light out of darkenesse and good out of euill turne vnto their comfort make them more to call and crie vpon Christ to loue him more with all their soule to desire more earnestly to bee ioyned vnto him and to vse all holy meanes of attaining thereunto Atnoone And that with such affection that when other are resting or taking their repasts the christian man can haue no comfort nor eate his mea●e vnlesse he be with Christ Thou feedest thou makest thy flocke to l●e c. This meanes of comming vnto Christ is the ministry of the word in the Church and Congregation of Saints which are as it were one fould vnder one Shepheard feeding with the food of life For why should I be as one that pitcheth her tents by the flocke of thy companions Herein great care and circumspection is to be had that we ioine not our selues to false teachers which com vnder the name of Christs shepheards but inwardly are rauening wolues If thou know not In which behalfe the faithfull man though he be in Christ and shine in the graces of the Spirit yet laboureth of much ignorance and is many times ouertaken and therefore had neede to be instructed and set into the way Get thee out c. Which is to trie the Spirits whe 〈◊〉 they be from God for the touchstone of all doctrine is by the word if it bee heauenly and celestiall not sauoring of the world Vnto the troope c And being so as many as walke according to this rule the b●dge of the Israel of God peace is vpon them and mercie such a mans person is accepted to God the graces and ornaments of the Spirit in him are sweet and pleasing Borders of gold we will make Yea God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost the most blessed and glorious Trinity will dock and set him forth more and more and bestowe more good things vpon him and more enrich him with all heauenly blessings transforming him from glory vnto glorie My Spicknard giueth forth his smell These promises comfort the Christian soule and bring a sweet refreshing to the senses My Welbe loued is as a bundle of myr●h Acknowledging all to come from Christ and from the vertue of his power Whose excellency we must consider not simply as it resteth in himselfe but