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A91075	The prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the saints and professors of this generation of the great things the Lord will doe in this their day and time. Shewing (amongst other things) the nature and quality of the apostachy. The judgement of the Lord upon the leaders of the apostacy. How the Lord will deale with, and carry himself towards, others guilty of the apostacy. The certainty of deliverance at hand for the true seed. / By a wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus. To which is prefixed two very useful epistles, by Christopher Feak, and John Pendarves, ministers of the Gospel.	Wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus.; Pendarves, John, 1622-1656.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3687; Thomason E888_2; ESTC R207362	83,871	109

one it imports thus much that it is the oneness of the Spouse that makes her so Dove-like and undefiled unless you endeavour after this union which the Apostle cals The unitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace you wil not walk worthy of your vocation wherewith ye are called Ephes 4.3 compared with the iv while Ephraim envies Judah and Judah vexes Ephraim defiling dirt and dust wil be thrown about and stick to your garments when the Lord hath by his Refining dispensation united his Jewels and his Remnant into one upon his own foundation then wil they be pleasantness to the Lord his Dove undefiled then wil such a glory rest upon them as the Lord wil create a defence upon it as hath been already suggested in this discourse my Dove my undefiled is but one 9 This union is the very Image of that glorious union between the Father and the Son our Lord makes the union between him and his Father the pattern of that union he intercedes for that they may all be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee again that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they be made perfect in one this union is a lively representation of the glorious union between the Father and the Son and what an exceeding glory must that needs be my thinks the glory of it should even ravish your hearts and make your souls like to the Chariots of Aminadab in an eager pursuit of it til you have attained So that by this time I hope you may be in love with union who can but be in love with it the glory of it is so exceeding like the glory of your Lord who is the chiefest of ten thousand but I would not be mistaken by any It was in the heart of that blessed servant of the Lord dear Tillinghast had he had alonger day to have wrought in to have presented you with some principses of this glorious union O that the Lord would anoint some other with the same Spirit that some healing balsom might be poured into the bleeding wounds of distressed Syon this union I so earnestly press after is not dissonant to but may wel stand with that holy separation from the unclean thing the Saints are exhorted and it is their duty to seperate from but again a truly Christian pursuit after this union wil glorifie a right and a holy separation pursue this holy principle of Union and I perswade my self you wil leave very few or none that have but a grain of sincerity cleaving to the uncleanthing if the glory of this Union be so powerful as to convince the wicked World how much more than think you wil it draw that heart that hath but the least grace in it O the inexpressible advantage this union of parts brings to the whole body one part possesseth wisdom and counsel another spirit and life another part agility and swiftess in motion now while they are not in conjunction tho the one may have wisdom and counsel yet it may want the spirit and life of the other and though that other may have excellent spirit and life yet it may want wisdom to direct and guide the agile faculty in a regular motion but when there is a union of parts the whole body partakes off whatsoever wisdom of whatsoever excellency of Spirit and Life and of whatsoever other noble gift is in any part thereof which must needs be exceeding glorious to behold of much advantage to the cause and work of your Lord. O my Brethren If there be therefore any consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 2 3.4 5. if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels of mercies fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde let nothing be done through strife or vain glorie but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus 5 Take heed and beware of a selfish spirit a self-exalting spirit dread and shun this monster as the greatest precipice of danger your Souls can possibly fall into at such a time as this This frame and temper of spirit the Lord wil contend against and bow down in that dreadful day of his which is hastning upon us For the day of the Lord of hosts shal be upon every one that is proud and loftie and upon every one that is lifted up and he shal be brought low yea the Lord wil not endure the least degree of it not so much as a losty look Isai 2.11 12 The loftie looks of man shal be humbled and the haughtiness of men shal be bowed down it is necessary it should be so and the reason why the Lord wil have it so is that the Lord alone may be exalted in that day it is the great design of the Lord in this notable day of his that he is bringing upon Syon to exalt himself alone and til this selfish frame of spirit be bowed down and brought low the Lord cannot accomplish his design he cannot be alone exalted this is the reason why the dreadful day of the Lord wil come upon the Cedars the materials of his Temple because they are high and lifted up but one fragment of this temper of spirit is one of the 7 things that are hateful an abomination unto the Lord a proud look or haughtie eyes Prov 6.17 as the margent of some Bibles hath it O therefore my brethren if we would be partakers of the rich Promises of the sparing love of our Father and not fal under the scourging hand of an angry God in this day of the Lord that is coming upon us let us dread and flee a self-exalting spirit Lastly Seeing it is the designe of the Lord at this day to bring his Syon into her first state into the purity of the day of her Espousals let us in the name of the Lord with heart and hand joyn with one accord to further this glorious design of God O that we would n deavour every one to mend one and in love help to mend each other would you be serviceable in the work of the Lord I know you would why this is the ready way the high way to carry on the great and glorious design of God upon the world when Syon is so reformed by the power of God as that she can offer up Offerings in righteousness that are peasant unto the Lord as in the daies of old as in antient Years THEN shal she tread down the Wicked as ashes under her feet THEN will the Lord raise up thy Sons O Syon Zack 9.13.14 15. against thy Sons O Greece and make thee as the sword of a Mighty man and the Lord shal be seen over them and his arrow shall go forth as the lightening and the Lord God shal blow the Trumpet and shal go with whirlwinds of the South the Lord of hosts shall defend them and they shal devour and subdue with sling stones and they shal drink and make a noise as through Wine and they shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the Altar THE END

loose Professors against whom those who are of a low and legal spirit and Principle falling short by many degrees of their professed light in the Gospel are risen up and shall rise in Judgement to condemne them for their intollerable pride and sensuallity Qu. If any shall now enquire what is this fear of the Lord here spoken of I Answer It is a precious effect of the Spirit of Christ Isa 11.23 in the heart of a believer Jer. 32.40 whereby through the discovery of the glory of God in his word Psal 86.11 and works by Christ Rom. 3.18 and in consideration of the vast disproportion that is between God and the Creature he is made to think highly of God in all his Attributes Exod. 33.18 34.4 5 6 7. and to have respect unto all his Commandements Hosea 3.5 Thus referring the Reader to the search of Scriptures Psa 8.3 4. whether the thing be so Psa 111.7 8 9 10. and to the examination of his own heart Jer. 10.6 7 10 12. whether this good thing be found in him Isa 40.15 16 17. I shall hasten to the second qualification before mentioned Secondly Eccl. 12.13 The second Character whereby the faithfull people of God are distinguished from those Formalists is Their true and tender respect unto the name and glory of God preferring it above all their private concernments Of this blessed frame that people fell short who are upon this account reproved by the Prophet Herein is their Hypocrisie discovered that notwithstanding all their profession and performance of duties in assembling and bringing Offerings yet the Lord declares against them because they were men of mercenary self-seeking spirits Which of you saith he would kindle a fire on might Altar for nought Ch. 1.10 These were more like the Off spring of Hagar than Sarah unfit for Gods worke which was to exalt his name among the Heathen wherefore he layes them by saying I have no pleasure in you neither would he accept an Offering at their hands as you may see in the same Verse and in Chap. 2.3 of this sin who are so deeply guilty as the Priests whom the Prophet chargeth with despising Gods great Name Chap. 1.16 yet are they farthest off from conviction They put the Prophet or rather the Lord to it to prove the charge with A WHEREIN Wherein say they have we despised thy Name And thus they dispute with God and his Messenger but we find little or no confession or conviction of any evill charged on them but rather a charging God with injustice or unrighteousnesse in not rewarding their services Chap. 3.14 speaking stout words against him saying It is vain to serve the Lord. Could not these boast of a large and long profession as doe many now of their keeping Gods Ordinances walking mournfully before the Lord c. These observing solemne dayes of Fasting and Prayer as those whom the Prophet layes open and reproves Isa 1. 58.2 3. But in all these things mark what they had in their eye their own profit What profit is it say they As for the right Seed their care is exercised about their fathers name regarding it so much the more by how much others slighed it and as being provoked by the backsliding of many to an holy jealousie for God whilest others are looking after their Olive yards and Vineyards their purchases and large pay at best their present sensible enjoyments These are content to serve God though as to an eye of sense for nought and without profit if God hide his face they will give him glory by looking to him and waiting for him They meet together in a dark day and speak often one to another of the things that concern their fathers Name that being with most weight on their hearts We read of nothing save that nothing like to that upon their hearts they minded it more then their Trades Farms Wife and Children Lands and Lives these are the right seed whom God owns for his in trying dayes Mal. 3.16 17. and whom he delights to use having bent their hearts for him and for his design to make his name great in all the earth to these he promiseth the shinings of the Son of Righteousnesse with healing in his wings Mal. 4.2 3. and that they shall goe forth and grow up as Calves of the stall and tread down the wicked who shall be as ashes under the soales of their feet The words and actions of that chosen Remnant thus qualified howsoever slighted by the proud are noted in Gods BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE where their words who in a light self-seeking spirit made use of his great name have no place How apparent is the difference in this respect betwixt many Professors and Church-members some chiefly minding that work and those duties wherein they apprehend their present comfort and eternall salvation most neerly concerned little regarding those Ordinances which more especially respect the honour of God as to reprove sin and to reject or excommunicate offendors as just occasion is offered an Ordinance by the due practice whereof the name of God his truth and people are cleared and preserved from the blame of the miscarriages of scandalous offendors how heartlesse are Professors and Ministers at least so accounted to this work Did God lay them by of old who despised his name and will not God lay these by as Vessels wherein he takes no pleasure if they repent not and that speedily in as much as he is making hast to his great work viz. To exalt his great name not in one corner of the earth but in all the corners thereof Amen Hallowed be thy Name and Hallelujah Qu. But who shall follow the Lord in this great work Ans They only who are called chosen and faithfull whom he hath formed for his praise having redeemed them from the earth These follow him whithersoever he goeth not looking and tarrying for man till such and such a man goe before them It is enough to them to see clearly that the Lamb goes before them for they are his followers and will follow no other but in the way of following him Qu. But whence is it or how comes it to passe that so many professed followers of the Lamb doe turn back yea and turn against him at this time Ans Surely with many if not with all such Apostates the cause is their not being established with the grace of God because they were not stedfast in believing Gods free Promises in Christ for the Kingdome and all things else to be added to them in seeking that first Their hearts being not right in the matter of Regeneration therefore have they failed in the work of their Generation and being found Enemies to a thorow work within are found such to a thorow work of righteousnesse without and abroad in the Nation But did such at first run well Oh then seeing so many have begun to build and have not been able

They are so heartily and throughly sensible of the sufferings of the name and honour of their God that their care for that swalloweth up all other cares they minde not so much their own sufferings under the oppressions of these workers of wickedness as the sufferings of the name and interest of their dear Lord under that dishonour and shame these wicked tho refined hypocrites throw upon it their careful thoughts are solely taken up about the concernments of the name of their God They thought upon his name yet notwithstanding these excellencies they are not per-sect But 3 They are subject to many insirmities for they stand in need of the sparing mercy of their God and Father and I wil spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him 2 The work it self which these sincere hearts exercise themselves in as the great duty incumbent upon them in this their day is Consultation about the concernments of the great name and cause of the Lord at this time They think and they speak both parts of counsel they thought upon his name they consult in their own own hearts and thoughts about the name and interest of God and they speak often one to another about it they are often enquiring of and communicating their light to each other that if possible by such communications they may be able to find out something of the mind of their God and Father they could not by their more private consultations in their hearts and thoughts the subject of these their so serious consultations is the name of their God they thought upon his name their care is not how shal we get from under the unsupportable oppressions of these workers of wickedness that are set up nor how shall we free our selves and our Posterity from the bondage and slavery of these sons of violence nor so much how shal we bring down these proud and lofty men that speak such proud and stout words against the Lord his name and honour though possibly that may be more remotely in their thoughts too but all their cares are dissolved into a godly and holy carefulness for the name and honour of their dear Lord they thought upon his name how that was dishonoured the Lord had gotten himself a great name by delivering his people out of Babilon rearing up the glorious structure of his Temple and building up the ruined wals of Jerusalem setting up his true Worship again there in despight of all those great oppositions of his enemies round about and these backsliders dispise and dishonour this great name of the Lord of hosts doing what in them lies to bury it in Oblivion now these lovers of the Name of God think on this are very solicitous what they should do at this juncture of time to wipe off that dishonour is cast upon this great and glorious name in the view of the whole world O say they what shall we do for the name of our God wherewith shall we honour it what course shal we take to exalt and magnifie it in the eyes of the world before whom it hath been thus dishinored here 's the Center of all their thoughts and consultations They thought upon his Name 3 Let us see how exceeding kindly the Lord takes this at their hands 1 The Lord by two eminent acts manifests his great acceptance of them how is the heart of God taken with this blessed work The Lord hearkned and heard it as it implie the lowness weakness of the voice of these holy consultations that the Lord must hearken and listen to speak after the manner of men before he can hear it so it also implies great intensness of spirit with delight he hearkned the Lord is so wel-pleased with these blessed consultations that rather than miss hearing their voice he will hearken and listen with the greatest intenseness of minde the Lord hearkned as if the Lord had said stand aside Sathan cease thy accusing clamours in mine ears silence you exalters of wicked workers You are of your Father the devil and the lusts of your Father ye w ll do he was a lyar from the beginning and so are ye wrongfully charging the innocent with things they know nor peace ye waiward froward children through the noise and din of your peevish wranglings nothing can be heard be stil all I wil hear what these my Beloved ones say that stand up for my name and honour in such a day as this what though they discover much weakness and infirmity in the management of their work yet I delight in them and love to hear their voice The Lord hearkned and heard it he hearkens til he hears all and he takes special notice of what he hears let 's nothing slip and so delightful and pleasing to him is that he hears that as if he were distrustful of his memory A book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name here is the Lambs book wherein he sets down all the service his servants do for him that he may give them a suitable and ful reward when he comes into his Kingdom that possession his Father hath decreed to give him the Lord is so taken with what he hears that he wil book it all down set it all upon Record not a thought nor an expression not a word nor a sillable wil he loose the heart of God is so taken with these breathings that he writes a Book of Remembrance that when those Heavenly Records are read he may remember to do them honour then who thus honour him now by their loyalty and faithfulness cloathing them with his own Robes his own glory Thus shal it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour 2 The Lords acceptation of the work of these blessed souls appears by those rich promises he makes to them which are 1 Such as concern reward for work done As 1 They shal be mine saith the Lord of hosts this is a note of special peculiarity for as it hath relation to other persons it s put in opposition unto my Jewels in the next words saith the Lord of hosts there is a day a coming wherein I wil make up my jewels gather up my treasure and in that day they shal be mine mine in a more special and peculiar way and manner than my Jewels shal be as at the first when the children of Israel were in Egypt there were two Mines my people and my first born as as the first-born in whose stead the Tribe of Levi was chosen were Gods in a more special and peculiar manner then the rest of Gods people of Israel they were those whom he chose to be alwaies in his presence to serve before him continually his favorites to whom he manifested his glory and by whom he revealed his mind and Wil to the rest of their Brethren so here are TWO MINES too mine and my Jewels and this mine being put in opposition to my Jewels

them shal stand and wil not this be a terrible day indeed vvhen such glorious professors as delight themselves in the thoughts and expectations of the coming of Christ shal be found too light and thrown into the fiery furnace to purhe their dross and tinn and come under the Fullers sope to cleanse their garments from their unclean and filthy spots But would you see more of the terrors of this dreadful day then consider the four first Chapters of the Prophet Isaiah in the first Chapter he speaks of the same time Malachy doth in general termes in his second Chapter after an enumeration of some of the evils of the Times as the reason why the Lord hath forsaken his people he tels the particular work the Lord wil do in Zion at this day from the 10th verse to the end in the seven first verses of the 3d. Chapter the Prophet tels us what course the Lord wil take to bring those great things to pass he had spoken of before from the 16 Verse to the second Verse of the 4th Chapter he sets down the punishment and sad condition of the Capital and Head City of the land and in the remainder of the 4th Chapter we have a description of the glory and happy state of the Lords Jewels those that are purged and puryfied by this Refiners fire and Fullers sope by his spirit of Judgement and his spirit of burning That Isaiahs Prophecie in these Chapters hath relation to the same time Malachy treats of is clear to me upon these grounds 1 Because I find that Isaiah as wel as Malachy hath relation to three times 1 To a time of Apostacy z Isa 1.2 4 21 22 23. I have nourished and brought up Children and they have rebelled against me A sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity they are gone away backward how is the faithful City become an harlot it was ful of judgement righteousness lodged in it but now Murderers thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeves c yea and this apostacy is guilty of the same quality Malachy's is a refined hypocritical apostacy though they be rebelious children corrupters and are so far gone backward that the Lord dispairs of doing them any good by correcting them at a former rate but saith a Verse 5 They wil then revolt more and more though they be altogether unsound from the sole of the foot unto the head b Verse 6. though they be as the c Verse 10 Rulers of Sodom and their d Verse 15 hands are ful of blood yet they cover all with a e Verse 11 multitude of sacrifices they fil the Lord with them that they trouble him and he is a f Verse 14 weary to bear them all their performances are guilty of such hypocritical vanity that they are an g Verse 13 14. abomination to the Lord and his soul hates them 2 To a time of purifying and restoring Zion to its former glory from whence they are fallen h Verse 25 26. And I wil turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin and I wil restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the City of righteousness the faithful City i Ch 4.3 And it shal come to pass that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shal be called holy 3 To a time of destroying the wicked k Ch 1.28.3 The destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shal be together And they that forsake the Lord shal be consumed and the strong shal be as tow and the maker of it as a spark and they shal both burn together and none shall quench them Read also the second and third Chapters There is only this difference Isaiah hath spetial relation to the civil state of his people as a Common-wealth and Malachy hath spetial relation to the Worship and religious state of this people as a Church Ob If any should object that it is not probable that Isaiah should point at the same time with Malachy for he Prophecied a long time before speaks in the present tence as if he spake these things of his own time Answ I Answer 1. That this Prophecie was made known to I. saiah in King Vzzia's time l 2 King 15.3 who did that which was right in th sight of the Lord he was no ruler of Sodom therefore this Prophecy refers to another time not the present that it was revealed in Vzzia's time appears to me because the Vision seen by the Prophet sometime after in the 6th Chapter is said to be seen in the year that King Vzziah dyed verse 1. 2 This is a Vision the vision of Isaiah the son of Amos which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem c. now visions being concerning things to come this must of necessity have relation to a time yet to come 2 Because I find the Prophet Isaiah as wel as Malachy directs his speech to three sorts of people First To those Apostates the Lord wil in his judgements be avenged of m Ch. 2.24 and 3.11 Ah I wil ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies Wo unto the wicked it shal be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Secondly To those whom the Lord wil purge and purifie n Ch 1.25 I wil turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin who when the Lord shal have thus purged away their filth by a spirit of judgement and a spirit of burning shal be the holy Jewels of the Lord. Thirdly To a company of righteous souls whom the Lord wil spare in that day to whom the Prophet is commanded to say o Ch. 3.10 it shal be wel with them for they shal eat the fruit of their doings though it go ful ill with the rest of their Brethren yet it shal be wel with them the Lord wil spare them he hath his chambers to hide them in in this day of his wrath wherein he will punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquities 3 Because I find the Prophet hath wholly relation to the last dayes Chap 2. verse 2. and it shal come to pass in the last dayes the Prophet brings in the kingdom of the mountain the kingdom of Christ in its ful glory as the product and effect of that which before in the latter part of the first Chap. he had said the Lord would do for he brings it in with an AND and it shal come to pass in the last daies it runs current thus when Syon for the faith faithful City in the 21 verse and Zion in the 27 verse I take to be all one hath so far apostatised as that she is become an Harlot in Gods account her silver become

ravished mine heart with one of thine eyes with one chain of thy neck the Lord is thus ravished with his Spouse When she looks from the top of Amana from the top of Shenir and Hermon from the lyons dens from the mountains of the leopard and her lips drop as the hony comb yea so ravished is he with the glory of your present Work as he wil keep the Idea of it in his Book of remembrance he wil have it alvvaies before him why should you undervalue it and grow weary of it as of a low and mean thing seeing the Lord prizes it at so high a rate that it rejoyceth the very heart of God as those peculiar and rich promises annexed to it manifest Be not weary of it but keep close to your Work and you shal not only possess rich and glorious Reward but at the appointed time shal be accomodated vvith safficient furniture to carry on that glorious work of your Lord vvherein you shal grow up as Calves of the stal Be not weary of your work think not the time long nor your Work stale the Lord is now in the midst of you and it is exceeding dangerous for you to go forth to another Work Til the breaker up go up before you til your King the Lord pass on the head of you so long as the cloud abides on the Tabernacle the Children of Israel are not to journey but when the cloud is taken up m Deut. 1.33 and goeth in the way before them then is it safe for Israel to go forward let not an irregular ambition after a higher and more noble Work draw you into a sinful seeming 〈◊〉 of your Lords care of his Work cause that vvil greive the holy Spirit vvho dwels in your Temples n Cant. 2 7 I charge you O ye daughters of Jerusalem by the Roes and by the Hindes of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my Love til he please be faithful in your present Work and vvait the pleasure of your Lord and in the very next Verse you vvil hear his voice The voice of my Beloved and no sooner do you hear his voice but behold he comes leaping upon the Mountains skipping upon the hils no hils nor mountains of opposition shal hinder him but you shal behold him coming to give you your hearts desire o Ch. 3.6 Who is this that cometh out of the Wilderness like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and Frankincense with all powders of the Merchant and vvhen he forsakes that houling desart he vvil not leave you behind him p Ch 8.5 Who is this that cometh up from the Wilderness leaning upon her beloved O then blemish not your Lords Work by any impatiency of Spirit but vvait your Lords leasure he vvil come and vvil not tarry q Ch 3.5 I charge you O ye daughters of Jerusalem by the Roes and by the Hindes of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please r Ch. 8.14 Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or to a young Hart upon the mountains of spices 2 Let your love to your Lord Jesus and his name appear seek by all vvayes and means possible to convince the professing world that it is nothing but love to your beloved that moves you nothing but love strong as death verily this vvil prove of much advantage every vvay behold vvhat an advantage vvas gained by such a conviction as this upon the spirits of men in the 5th of the Canticles the Spouse of Christ by a sluggish and ununvvorthy carriage having lost the sight of her Beloved the consideration of the excellency and glory of his love blovvs up the embers in her sleepy heart into a fire of love her soul fails vvithin her she is ready to dye for vvant of her Beloved she runs hither and thither to seek him and she cals after him but all in vain in this hot pursuit after her Beloved she encounters with the Watchmen but meets with very unkind entertainment nothing but smitings and woundings from them she turns to the keepers of the wals and they handle her very roughly They took away my vail from me all this while she suffers loss she neither finds her Beloved nor gains any advantage her passion of love was such as obscured her beauty and excellency that it appeared not so plainly what in truth it was but when her Love brake forth clearly from under those clouds I charge you O ye daughters of Jerusalem if ye find my Beloved that ye tel him that I am sick of love what a wonderful change is wrought what an advantage is gained not only to her self a good esteem of her person O thou fairest among Women she is now longer counted worthy of stripes but of the highest praises but also to her Beloved it sets their hearts upon an earnest enquiry after him What is thy beloved more then another beloved that thou dost so charge us the intenseness and fervency of their mind in the enquiry is set forth by the doubling of the question What is thy beloved more then another beloved O thou fairest among Women what is thy beloved more than another beloved that thou dost so charge us O let your love to your beloved appear this wil wipe off all that dirt and dishonour the wicked world casts upon you and the cause of your Lord you stand up for and provoke the daughters of Jerusalem to enquire after your beloved with whom you are so exceedingly in love 3 Seek earnestly after a spirit of light and discerning from the Lord to enable you to hold forth your beloved to the world in all his glory the glory of his person and the glory of his word of truth when the Spouse had in answer to their question in the 5th of the Canticles made a ful description of the glorious excellencies of her beloved my beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest of ten thousand c. concluding This is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Jerusalem behold what blessed fruit this brings forth Whether is thy beloved gone O thou fairest omong Women whether is thy Beloved turned aside that we may seek him with thee her Beloved is now become their beloved also and they joyn issue with her in a through search after him let this be no smal part of your work to hold forth your beloved to the world in all his glory and lovely excellencies convincing them that this is your beloved and this is your friend that it is your love to him that moves you and acts you in all your wayes that it is the enjoyment of him that is the mark you shoot at then wil the daughters of Jerusalem be in love with your beloved also and account of you as the fairest among Women the most excellent would you have the daughters of Jerusalem be your friends and assistants in seeking after your beloved then