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Show What are the ChHrcheJ F/aggo"l a"d Apples. t~k._ehwJof; delireitferveiltly, yet modetlly, hl!mbly, and ":ith fubmillion to the Div-ine·Will, who knows bell when to grve, and when to withhold it; to whom to give it, arid from whom to re!lrain it. Remember, 'tis not of the Necrf[aries to ~alvations, though an high and excellent accommodation to us ~n. our Pilgrimage. Confider this, God can ea!ily make thee lick to h1s Banquetting-houfe ; he can ealily lhine fo upon thee, as to off"end 'thy eyes· that way. If there~ore God will not lhe~ thee all his G\o- . ry ( becaufe he fees thou art not able to bear rt; ) yet be _thou · co~tent if he will but hide thee in the hole of the Rock Chrt!l Je{ us and lhew thee his back-parts, and make his geodnes pafs be. for~ thee: If thou hall but therayment ofChrills Righteoufnefs to cover thy nakednefs; and the food of his promifc to feed on by Faith be thou therewith content; till God give thee of the fin ell' wheat and hony out of the Rock. If thou canll but behold his face here in Rtghteoufnefs, when thou 11wak.!ft (at futthdl _ in the RefurJ:edion) tbo~tfoa/t be [ati1Jied with hi11ik,enefi. Cant. 2. s: Stay me witb Flagt,oHt,•mJCemfm meP'ilb Appktl fo~l.am Sic~of _I LOfle. · · · ' ·. told you the !all day, that the Spoufe in this T ext doth two things: 1. She compl•iHt of a mal~dy. She i1 fick of Lm. . ~. 'She illtreatt for a Remedy ; flay me with Flagg0111, comfort .,e with Apples ; where you may obferve , r. To PI hom foe [peaft.!. Not to her beloved, for thJ ,words' in the Htb. are in the piNY'I number: now her beiOfled was bHt one ; dottbtlefs therefore it is to the Daughters of Hieru[altm, the third fort of perfons made interlocHtors in thi1 txceUmt dialogue; by.which (as I have heretofore ·!hewed you, ') lhe means the members of the Church, uuder which notion I und~rfiand as well the Minifiers of the Gofpel, ( e\fe. where in th'is' Sotig mentioned under the Notion of·WatchmeJJ;) as private Chrillians. 2. Obferve·whar foe wouiiJ h3ve, that is ex• pre!Ted in thofe words; Stay me wtth Flaggmts, comfort me with APJ•Ia, where obferve, 1. The thing foe !i•fim, to be flayed, to be comforted. What are the ChHrchu Applet and F laggons. c•mforted. 2. Tbe means lhe directs as proper for this Staying and Comforting, Fl1ggolls, Appler, lhe fuppofeth theft in the hands of thofe to whom lhe fpeaks; orherwife lhe would never have call'd to them for the application •1 them to her. The Propofition is this. Prop. That Chrif/ bath bmufted to hi1 Church, Flaggons and Ap-plu, for the {laying and com{ortingoftheS.u/sofbi1 Saints that are Prop. (ick,_ofLove; for which a brlievingSoul wiU caU to the Minifters and membm oftheChurcb JPhmit i1 Sick... of Love ; 11nd it i1 their duty to admini{ler them to it. I-lhlll handle this Propolitien by way of Ex-, p/ic•tion, Confirmation and Application. By way of Explication, I will enquire, I. What is underflood by flaggons and Apples here. 2. What this:/laying and ComfortiNg means. I . ~- What is meant by thefe F l11ggons and Appln? The words are l'll~'.,N:l and t:Jnllln:l: The former word we tranllate Flaggon1.: the radical word according to Paginne is WWM; and lignifies fundamflttum a foundation,according to Avenarim. \t is ~'~Nand lignifies the rib1,or pieces of board of which a wineve! Tel is made up: Hence this word n V'~N ligniiieth an Hogshead of wine, or a Can, or any other ve!Tel of wine made up of fuch pieces of wood, as an Hogshead is ; fuch a quantity as they _judged fufficient for a man for a day, the word ( excepting this text) is only twice found in holy writ from which you.may judg the true fenfe of it in tbis Text, 2 Sam.6.19. Davi4 dealt aroongll the people a good pie~e offiefo, and a F laggon of wi>te;and fo, I Chro. 16-3-whue the fame "!'ords are repeated: by which it appears, that the He~rews ufed thrs word to exprefs a vrffil of wi;ze holding a convement portzo,. ; the JUil quantity we know not. Hence it appears that ~he Srptuagint are mifiaken in tranllating this ~ ,_.r:,.,r •. and fo all the Verfioos that f oUow them; for by thefe two other l'exts ofScripture now quoted it is plain, it lignifies a VelTe! of fuch liquor M they u[ed tn drink._; which was not Vnguents, &c. but a ~gure, a double figure mull be here acknowledged. 1. The ¥e!Tel1s put for the wine in the Ve{fel; Contine HI pro re- contenta' (an ordinary figure in Scripture. ) 2. A Metaphor mull alto b~ ~cknowledged; for that which is here to beftayrd'and comforted' IS ~he Soul, and _th_e Stay and Com{ort,fpoken ·of, is not the ftrengthem_ ng,_ and rev1vrng of the ~nimal Spirits. Now the wounded· Sptrlt IS not to be ftayrd with a· cup of wine. By FlaggoHi there~ fure here mull be ullderllood fome fpiritual thing, which hath the. |