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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	eat_v	fruit_n	garden_n	1,548	5	10.7452	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85763	Loves entercours between the Lamb & his bride, Christ and his Church. Or, A clear explication and application of the Song of Solomon. By William Guild, D.D. and preacher of God's Word.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2206; Thomason E1583_3	233,317	296

repentance and expressions of her holy love and which is strange the feast that he most delights in is our hungring and thi●…ng after righteousness and such he mutually invites to feast with him Isai 54. 1. but alas we feast him rather with Wormwood and Gall and with such grapes as are spoken of Isai 5. 3. Thirdly we have to consider 1. What this Spikenard is 2. How called hers 3. How it sends forth the smell thereof First then spikenard is a very precious and odoriferous Oyntment as we see Mark 14. 3. Joh. 12. 3. and by which is meant the precious and savory or fragrant graces of Gods Spirit comming from our head of Christ and powred down upon his members like that Psalm 133. 1. which is that Unction whereof John speaks and whereby all true Christians are spiritually annoynted to be a Royall Priesthood unto God 2. This Spikenard is called hers 1. by donation as it is said quid habes quod non accepisti 2. by inhesion because it is gratia gratis data quae nobis inhaeret being sown and rooted in such who are ingraft truly and rooted in Christ but is not ours as if it were either from our selves or like Christs Righteousnesse which is imputed to us and is like Esau's vesture that sweet smelling garment wherewith being clothed we get our fathers blessing 3. This Spikenard is said to send forth the smell thereof when these graces manifest themselves by the fruits or effects and operation thereof in that new obedience which becommeth Christians expressing the vertue of Christs death and resurrection the truth of their conversion the livelinesse of their faith the fervencie of their zeale and the reality of their charity and the like the smell whereof like that Joh. 12. 3. fills every place where it is sent forth ascending upwards to God like that of Noah's sacrifice or Cornelius almes deeds and pleasing him reflecting inward to the conscience rejoycing the same and giving an assurance of our election by welldoing and extending to others as Psal 16. 2. who seeing our good works and getting good thereby do glorify God our heavenly Father Observations 1. We see the great love of Christ to his Church not only in bestowing gifts and graces upon her but likewise familiarly banquetting with her as he sayes Rev. 3. 20. If any man will open unto m●… I will sup with him and he shall sup with me therefore also c. 2. verse 4. it is said he brought me into his banquetting house and his banner over me was love which should teach us to walk worthy of such a favour and ever to have on the banquetting Garment of holynesse unspotted with the flesh 2. By her Spikenard its sending sorth the smell thereof we see that there is no better way to entertain him than with the fruits and fragrant smell of his own saving graces and therefore it is said c 4. v. 16 Let my Beloved come into his garden eat his pleasant fruits so that as it is said of the vertuous woman Prov. 31. 31. give her of the fruit of her own hands and let her own works praise her Or as David said to the Lord 1 Chron. 29. 14. of thine own have we given thee even so give the Lord of the fruit of his own graces planted in thy heart and let his own work thereof praise him But alass the smell we send forth is as that of a filthy puddle which displeases the Lord and provokes him to wrath 3. We see likewise here that what edifying gifts we get from God like so many talents we ought not to keep them close as that improfitable servant did or hiding our light as it were under a bushell but we should do as Mary Magdalen did with her Box of Spiknard precious and costly powre it out for the benefit of others even upon Christs feet Math. 26. and lovvest or meanest members of his body even as that Psalm 133. 2. costly oyntment that was povvred on Aarons head drenched down to the lowest skirts of his Garment Verse 13. A bundle of mirrh is my well be loved unto me He shall lye all night betwixt my breasts Here the Church profestes her spirituall comfort which she had in Christ and of his death and resurrection the feeling whereof is like a sweet odour to a believing soul and which she would be so carefull to conserve and apply in all estates unto her selfe by the work of faith that all the night time of his life or of affliction and tentation noted by a dark time she would make Him her continuall joy and comfort solacing her selfe in him and that he should lye between her breasts and constantly dwell in her heart by Faith and true affection She compares him then to a bundle of Mirrhe or Nosegay such as is usually made of most pleasant and sweet Flowers for delighting sight and smell and which Maidens did set in their bosomes between their breast that so they might have the sweet savour thereof alwaies in their nose In which word we have 1. how she calls him 2. Whereunto she compares him to wit to myrrh and a bundle of myrrh 3. to whom he is so to wit to her 4. where she places him between her Breasts and 5. How long shall he lye there to wit all the Night First then she calls him her beloved whereof v. 7. whom for power and authority before she called a King v. 12. and whose power should confound her if his love did not comfort her and to whom she againe as a King owes loyalty and subjection and as her blessed bridegoom she professes to him love and affection Next she compares him to Myrrh which was one of the gifts wherewith the wise men of the East honoured Christ at his birth Math. 2. with which aloes his body also was imbalmed after his death Joh. 19. 39. and which likewise was the first and speciall ingredient of the holy annointing oyle that vvas appoynted to be made for annoynting Aaron and the Tabernacle with the pertinents thereof being of a svveet and odoriferous smell as the rest of the sweet spices were of that conposition and whereby is signified the sweet comfort that the Christian soul indued with spirituall senses finds in Christ crucisied to whom sinne is first sowre Exod. 30. 23. Neither contents she her self to compare Him only to Myrrh but to a bundle of Myrrh to show unto us 1. the abundance of that spirituall comfort that comes from him to a believing soul as a greater smell is yeelded by a bundle of sweet flovvers or spices than comes from a single flovver or a graine of spice As likewise to shovv 2. that as from every flovver in a bundle there comes a svveet smell even so from every thing considerable in Christ there arises comfort whether we consider his natures or offices his birth and conception his holy life death buriall resurrection and ascention and now his intercession at his