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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

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

any mislike or indignation conceiued against thee The trueth is I had a longing to see how neer the time approached of our ioyfull and happy marriage and therefore betooke me to my place of glory VERS 9. When I discerned it not my minde set mee vpon the chariots of my free-hearted people to say But perc●iuing that day was not yet at hand I came back with speed vnto thee together with all my people and retinue by the ministerie of those my free-willing seruants with all speede and earnestnesse to giue thee comfort And now mark and lay vp in thy heart what I shall say VERS 10. Returne returne O Shullamite returne returne that wee may behold thee What behold you in that Shullamite as the daunse of the Machanaijmites Thou hast indeed gone astray that had almost marred thee but in mee is thy health and safety Returne returne vnto me that I and mine all the Angels of God may haue ioy in heauen to see the fruits of thy faith spring anew For notwithstanding thy slippes and fales I esteeme thee most perfect in mine eternall counsell and decree and putting all the robes of mine innocencie righteousnes vpon thee doe now so make thee by the power of my Word and spirit my friends here and fellows being iudges Looke vpon her tell me how you finde her Is shee not most braue glorious and gallantly attended Verely when I doe behold her and all her troupes comming forth to meete mee me thinkes I am in the middest of the Tribes of Israel and of all those worthies that skipping and lepping with songs and daunses and all kinde of holy meriments came to receiue Dauid at Machanaim when God brought him back into his kingdome VERS 11 How bewtifull are thy feete with these shooes O daughter of a Prince The compasse of thy thighs are like browches the worke of the hand of a cunning workeman And yet the neerer I come vnto thee the more I admire thy bewty from the toppe vnto the toe from one end vnto an other To beginne at the lowest and so to ascend Thy feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace Thou daughter of a Prince O thou of noble birth borne not according to the flesh but by the faith of the promise The girdle of pure truth aboue thy hippes framed by the most cunning workeman the Spirit of God himselfe VERS 12. Thy nauell like a round bowle Let not the Liquor of it faile But let thy belly bee as a heape of wheate hedged about with Lillies Thy nauell round as a bowle a token of thy fruitfulnesse O let it neuer be drawne drie but as a full cuppe wanting not any liquor let thy wombe be alwaies fruitfull and thy fruit precious and fragrant as a heape of wheate hedged about with Lillies So great a desire I haue of thine increase VERS 13. Thy two breasts are like two young roes the twinnes of a hinde VERS 14. Thy neck like to a tower of Iuorie thine eies to the fish-pooles made with art at the populous gate thy nose like to the tower of Lebanon that looketh towarde Damascus Thy two brests as two hindes fit to nourish and giue suck Thy neck the neck of discipline straight and steddie like vnto a tower to beare vp the ministerie as it were the face of the Church and white and bewtifull as a tower of iuory for the order and grauity thereof Thine eies bright and cleere as the fish-pooles made with great art at Ierusalem in the broade gate of the flocks for such is the ministery of the Church placed where the godlie doe flock into the Lords assemblies which shine as the cleere waters in the pond for iudgement and knowledge for deliuery of doctrine are as the flowing of those waters for wisdome in searching and waighing preparing and fitting of it may be compared vnto the workemen by whom those pondes were artificiallie made and to their cunning workemanshippe Thy nose straight and comely as quick a iudgement in discerning doctrines as the nose hath in discerning smelles VERS 15. That which on thy head is put vpon thee is like to crimson and the fillet of thy head is like to purple a King might bee tyed to these walkes The ceremonies as it were the ornaments of thy head both the haire-lace the borders all thy whole attire are for comlines good order of speciall account and a great grace vnto thee no lesse then skarlet and purple There is no King in the world but might finde in his hart to be tied to these walkes and to be held prisoner in the sight of thee and of the bewty of thy assemblies So great is thy glory in comparison of all the vaine pompe of this present world VERS 16. How faire thou art and how delectable O Loue with these pleasures I cannot hold but I must cry out with an admiraon of thy bewty that thou art exceeding faire and amiable not thy selfe onely but all that is about thee O loue onely to bee beloued VERS 17. This thy stature is like a palme tree and thy brests like clusters of grapes Thy whole body straight strong and of a comely stature Thy Teates as berries VERS 18. I say I will get vp vpon the palme-tree I will take hold of her branches and thy brests shall now be like the clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples But I will not leaue thee so I giue thee my word for it and that I promise be sure I will performe I will prune and purge thee that thou shalt bee all fruitfull redolent and fragrant Thy teates as the clusters of grapes full of the sweete iuce of the milke of the Word of God Thy nose shall both giue and receiue a smell of apples that thou maist be as wel meate as drink vnto the soule VERS 19. And thy pallat as wine of the best smell frisking liuely vpright making the lips of those that are asleepe to speake Yea thy tongue the preaching of the Gospell shall bee as pure strong and pleasant wine of the best smell and sauour sprinckling and leaping louely frisking in the cuppe whereby euen those that sleepe and are dead in their sinnes and trespasses shall be awakned and with new lippes and words sound forth thy praise CHAP. VII CHVRCH VERS 1. I am my well-beloueds since his desire is towards me THis comfortable speech of Christ vnto his Church doth so refresh her that first she breketh forth into thankfulnesse for his mercy In regard whereof shee professeth shee is wholy his whose affection she findeth to be so wonderfull towards her that he loued her when she cared not for him followed her when she refused him called her back when she ranne away from him pardoned her when she offended him gaue himselfe anew vnto her when she had forsaken him seated her in Heauen when shee was in the lowest hell VERS 2 Goe to my well-beloued let vs goe forth into