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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

But to hasten to the second Question What were those EVILL WORKS which our Lord did testifie against or for which he did bear witness against the world and for doing whereof he was hated of the world I answer Without Controversie THOSE EVILL WORKS may be reduced to two or three generall Heads Either such as were wrought by them in the way of an ECCLESIASTICALL BODY or such as were brought forth in the Manner and Method of a CIVILL STATE or else such as were done by the confusion and mixture of ALL together as the Holy Spirit in that notable Prayer of Peter intimates where all sorts of Interests Civill Ecclesiasticall Military are declared to Combine together against our Lord. Acts 4.27 Of a truth against thy holy Servant Jesus whom thou hast anointed both HEROD and PONTIVS PILATE with the GENTILES and the PEOPLE of Israel were gathered together Here is a Combination in the Church in the Court in the CAMP against the Saviour of the world And upon examination of the works and workings of all these parties we shall find cause to say they were to be testified against as Evill But more particularly to reckon up some of them as we find them occasionally recorded by the foure Evangelists and as we goe along to compare them with those evill works which are now carried on in these parts of the earth as done by the High Priest by Herod by Pontius Pilate by the Gentlemen of the long Robe of both professions c. First let us begin with their Counsells against Christ those works of darknesse they are evill works within doores Mat. 12.14 The Pharisees went out and held a Counsel privately how they might destroy him Here were consultations held against the life of Christ So Mat. 27.1 All the chief Priests and Elders of the people tooke counsel against Jesus to put him to death We shall have an exact account of all their wicked murtherous Consultations against the Person the Doctrine the Honour of the Lord Jesus in that day when he shall Judge the secrets of all men according to his Gospel But in the mean time we know that these Deeds of Darknesse were some of those evill workes which our Lord did testifie against And in like manner at this day we know in that light of truth which will not faile us that there are many close cunning consultations to destroy that Cause of Christ which not long since was in shew highly honoured and contended for by him who is known by the name of his Highness the Lord Protector c. but who gave him that Name I leave to him to Answer when he shall be called to a strict account for all the evil counsel given against the Lord and his followers because of their righteous reproofs of the Army and their Generall for the Hypocrisie Apostacy Oppression and Persecutions whereof they are guilty in the sight of the Sun Another kind of evill works was their watching of the Lord Jesus and sending forth Spies which should feign themselves just men that they might take hold of his words that so they might deliver him to the power and Authority of the Governour Luke 20.20 And the Scribes and Pharisees Luke 11.53 urged him vehemently and provoked him to speak of many Things laying wait for him and seeking to catch something out of his mouth that they might accuse him Certainly every man who loves the Lord Jesus will easily grant these were very wicked workes But are not such practises frequently used by the Spies which are Imployed from the Court and Council at White Hall I am sure before our Imprisonment Many who came to catch our words feigned themselves to be Just men to be good men whereby they were capeable to intangle us in our talke The same Spirit which wrought effectually in those children of disobedience doth work in these as effectually and we doubt not but we shall prove these Spies to be guilty of the same evill workes with those Spies which watched Christ and their Masters to be of the same conspiracy with the Pharisees and Herodians namely at that Day when his Highnesse shall stand before the Judgement seat of Jesus Christ without either his Clergy or his Lawyers to plead his Cause We shall then understand what Instructions they were which he or his Secretaries gave his Catch poles when he imployed them and what conference he had with them when they read our Sermon Notes in his hearing and all those works of darknesse and secrecy shall be brought to light and Our Lord Himselfe shall second our Testimony That their Deeds were evill Again Other evill workes of the world and the men of the world which the Lord Jesus did testifie against was Their devouring widdowes houses while for a pretence they made long prayers Mat. 23.14 Surely this was a double evill worke and therefore He tells them they shall receive greater Damnation Not only widdowes Houses have been devoured by the new Rulers but whole Families in pressing and forcing or else inticing men to the ends of the earth for Gold and Silver thousands having perished in the Enterprize but while these Families were devoured by Sea and Land what frequent fastings and long prayers were made at White-Hall The Lord beholds this Hypocrisie and it will one day appear how abominable this project was in the sight of God as it doth in part already not withstanding all their long prayers to colour it over as a Designe against Antichrist and his Kingdome Besides these evill works before Mentioned the Lord declares against them because of their extortion and excesse as it is in Matthew because of their ravening and wickednesse as it is in Luke yea he speaks of their Binding of heavy Burthens and grievous to be borne and laying them on mens shoulders but they will not move them with one of their fingers For my part I am verily perswaded that the same evill workes are Done to the Innocent people by this present Sword power and their cryes enter into the ears of the Lord of Hoasts though they pity them not who Doe thus oppresse them Many more might be added which in the Judgement of all the true Disciples of Christ will be accounted evill workes but I must not inlarge a Preface beyond its proportion this therefore shall sufface for the second Point what kind of evill workes they were which Christ testified against and how like unto them the evill workes of this present Generation of Rulers will be found to be when they are examined by the Righteous Judge of all the world Now as for the Nature of the Testimony given by Christ concerning the evill works of that world or worldly Church which hated both him his doctrine and his followers which is the third generall Head to be spoken to it 's plain that it is no lesse then a Divine Testimony As saith the Apostle If we receive the WITNES of men THE WITNES OF GOD is greater Now

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

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

shal she be clothed with all the the defence promised and not til then the promise is to a washed and purified State not to a State defiled with filth tho of Zion not poluted with blood though of Jerusalem that which is most like true holiness and purity and is not that vvhich the Lord wil defend is nothing but glory the Image and impress of himself upon all the glory shal be a defence nothing beneath the glory of Zion thus vvashed and purified by a spirit of Judgment and a spirit of burning wil the Lord defend at this rate and after this manner but Syon clothed upon with the glory of her Bridegroom and Lord e Cant. 9 5 Who is this that cometh up from the Wilderness leaning upon her beloved shal be defended by a continual assistance of the creating power of God so that they shal not be tempted by any necessities whatsoever to make use of the same unrighteous politick wayes and courses the Rulers of the world have hitherto made use of to defend themselves they shal not make use of the worlds unrighteousnes to fence and guard their righteousness from the rape and spoils of their enemies but there shal a creating power such an extraordinary providence at tend them bringing down their enemiesunder their feet upon all occasions at all times that the Lord shal be so eminently seen in those wonderful occurrences of his providence and power that he shal have the praise and the glory of all Glory to God in the highest wil then be the burden of the song at that day 20 Vntil the Lord hath purged and purified Zion he wil not defend it against the rage and injuries of her enemies when the Lord shal have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion and purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof then and not before wil he create upon all its glory such a defence as shal be a shadow from the heat a refuge from the storm and a covert from the rain such as shal be sufficient for all times and seasons night and day 21 When Syon is thus purged and purified become Gods holy hil of Zion a holy generation such a stamp of holiness set upon them that they shal be CALLED HOLY then will the Lord make use of her in his glorious work in the way of his Judgements upon the prophane antichristian and hypocritical world then wil they know how and be fit to burn up the wicked treading them as ashes under their feet But 22 Before that day comes that shal burn as an Oven wherein the stone shal smite the great Image and break it in peices the Lord will bring his remnant and his Jewels into one entire body and poure down his Spirit upon them a spirit of discerning such a degree of the Spirit as shal sufficiently qualifie and fit them for his work and service saith the Lord when I have made up my Jewels then shal ye all return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not for the day then cometh that shal burn as an Oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shal be stubble and the day that cometh shal burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shal leave them neither root nor branch 23 Observe the work of the remnant at this day of apostacy and falling away it consists of two parts 1 Bearing their testimony against the apostacies and evils of the times they spake often one to another if Jerusalem loose the kindness of her youth and the love of her Espousals Jeremy must be f Jer. 1.18 a defenced City and an iron pillar and brasen walls against the whole Land against the Kings of Judah and the Princes thereof against the Priests thereof and against the people of the Land If the house of Israel turn aside from God grow impudent and hard hearted stopping their ears against the word of the Lord Ezekiel must have g Ezek. 3.8 9 a strong face against their faces and a strong forehead harder than an adamant against their foreheads if the house of Jacob get into an hypocritical strain of outward holiness would make the world believe they keep a fast a day unto the Lord when they indeed fast to smite with the fist of wickednes and would cover their fulfilling the wil of their lusts under a cloak of doing God service Isaiah must h Isai 58.1 cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a Trumpet and shew my people their transsions and the house of Jacob their sins in the performance of which service i Jer. 1.17 they must not be afraid lest they be confounded Qu If any should ask what those evils are that they that fear the Lord should bear their testimony against Ans The Prophet makes answer to this question by his significant THEN in the 16 Verse of his Third Chapter THEN they that feared the Lord spake often one to another then when they heard and saw things at that pass the Prophet had spoken of before they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and it doth not only point out the time when they spake but I conceive it also signifies to us the things against which they spake for the Prophets then hath relation and alludes to all the enormities and evils of the Times enumerated before and they are of a double nature matters of Religion and matters of a civil concernment 1 Of Religious matters And 1 If they behold men in professing Syon denying God k Mal. 1.6 that honour and that fear due unto him despising his great name robbing the Lord of those dues they ought to render to him then are they that fear the Lord to be sensible of the dishonour that comes to the name of God thereby and speak against that evil 2 If they behold Inhabitants of professing Syon a people that are l Isai 1. from the 2. verse to the 14 rebebellious children a sinful Nation laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers corrupters that have forsaken the Lord and gone away backward having their hands ful of blood mens hands may be filled with blood divers wayes that they are become to the Lord as Rulers of Sodom and people of Gomorrah provoking the holy one of Israel unto anger when they see this people in hypocrisie filling the Lord with a multitude of sacrifices and Offerings Oblations New Moons and oppointed feasts cloaking over their apostatising wickednesses with many religious performances to cozen their consciences and the professing world then ought they that fear the Lord to be sensible of the great dishonour the name of God suffers by this abomination and speak against that evil also 3 When they see men in professing Syon m Mal. 2.8 depart out of the way of the Lord apostatise causing many to stumble fal taking such offence at the Law the wayes of

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