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Show • Cant.~~ 3• I fote under hil Sh4dow with t.rW. dtlight, 111il bil frNit WI/ plea font uMfD mytafte, . ' ' .. V VE have· heard the Spouf~ commendation, ofhei Beloved ' th'e Jail day, !he compared him to the App{etree, •noongft tbetrut of tb• Wood. ' We come now to confider her Improvement, and Application of the notion, th11t I told you was in two particulars : I. I jilt under bit Sh11tl.t# with grw qelig/at. 2. Hil fruit w.w pleajimt to my Tafte. In ' two things.'( I Jold you the tali day,~ the Applctree exceede.d all t~e t~~~s .<,>f .th~ ~ op'~· 1. In ill $ bado,.,; :t. In its fruitfolne{t: the Spoufe mllanceth m lioth. As to the Sh11tl.11P, .!he laith,.fhe Jot under tbe Sb~J.., 6/ tbif Appletree witb great delight. The He b. u ilj bi$ S!Jrztf..•,.,J have defired or I have delight.cd, and I.have fat J.r.on. , , The Vulg. Lat1 reads it, Vntkr hi[.Sbadow whom I delired, I jilt do41n, fome little verbal dil!hence there is in .(~111J! other verfionJ, Some Interpreters obferve an ancient ufage at weddings for a Can .. py to be carried over the Bride, and to thai they think rho(e phra· fes of {prtadinf tbt J/tirt ovtr her ( mentioned R...th 3. 9· &. IO, 8.) to allude; and they think that the Sp,oufe in tile text, fpeak· eth with fome allufion to .that •• But being we have a nearer de· ductlon of the Metaphor In the text, I conceive we need not fetch it fo far ; !he had before likened him to the Appletree: Irw we know call a Sbadew, and their !had ow is 11re[rtjhing to the weary Traveller. The Propolition is this: Prop. The lltlierJ'ini, So Ill [IJJ •nder CbrijfJ fhatl.w with gre~t de· light, ., .: ' . . ' In the fuller purfuit of this PropOiition•, ' I • thali do thefe things. ·~ . ' 1 J. We will inquire w.hat is here meant by ibe S'badolf! of Chriji,'' . . ' I ' 2. What is meant by the Spoufes littini' down Hilder' the Shadow 'ojCbrift. 3. Whence is it that the Spoufe finds fuch a delight , in[llting •nder the S b .. do"' ofChri{i? 4• What .Application we may make of this Propofition. . I-~· W!J4J the Sh~tdor» ofe/Jrift it i J, ft:!. What is here meant by tbt Sh •dow ofChrift? A Shadow Is an affection of the Air deprived of fome degrees •of Light, by the interpofi<ion offome grofs and darker body. It Is confiderable hi the ca•fo and in the effilJ. The caufe of it is fame groffer darker body, interpoling betwixt the Sun and that 1part of the eatth 'which Is !had owed ; the !had ow is the effect ?f fuch an interpofitlon : Now the Sun bei.ng not only, the fownta10 ·oflight; but alfo a great :e~fe •fheatr; by how much its influence upon any fpot of ground is more hindred,by fo much is that place, rendered more coli and refr'-"iltg unto the traveller. And in rfgard of tht daily and circular· motion of the .Sun, the lhadow varieth and altereth, and is one-while on this fide, another-while on that fide according to the afpect which the Sun hath ljpon that body which catleth the !had ow as it depriveth the place of the rays and beams of the Sun. 1. This is the Iitteral notion of a Shad.ow.From which there are feveral metaphoric~! ufages of it in Scripture: r • Sometime, (and that moft ordinarlly,)it f';8nifiethProtec!lion,and thus very often ap· plied to men, Ge11. I!). 8.j..Jg.9. n. If. 30. 2. And very often to God: you read ofthcSbadow of the Almighty, Pfol. 91. I. tbeShtl· tl~wofGodJ "'lng1, Pfal. 17. 8. Pfal. 36. "'·1• Pfal. 57· I· Pf•l. 63. 1· Th'us thepromife is to• be underllood, .Y: + 6. ltl11dthmjhaU be a 'IIIbtrnllc/t, for 11 fhado., ;,. the d•y-time, .& lf."· 2 5. 4· '1 ho,. . ht~fthrena.ftrmgth to the poor, aftrength lfltb~ n~tdy. in hit Jiftre[r, a refNgt from the ftorm, ajhad•w from the bt41, 2. In regard of the incertaint) of a fhatl.'R', and the often v.aryint of it (according to the afpect which the Sun hath U!lDn the thing that interpofeth betwix~ the earth and it,) a !had ow often fignifi. eth mHtabilityand iltc•nil""!J; and the life of f!!an is COJ11pared to a !had ow, I· Chron. 2 9· I 5· job 8. 9· 7ob. I '4• 2-Job '7· 7 •. &c. Bur Uhall not in fill upon this notion as by no means applicable here for herein doth Chritls !had ow excel all others as I !hall !hew yon: · Thirdly, in Riga" that a lhadow do~h-ordinarily· come before the SNn, and as the Sun rifeth higher or goeth further in the Fir· mament, fo thejhadow vanijheth. This Metaphor of a..fhatl.w is al" fo ufecl in Scripture, to fignifY the typiaal ordi~t<~ncu of the L~w . which did prefigure the Lord Jefus Chrill,and were abolithed up: on his manifellation in the flelh: thus Col. 2, 17· and Hab. 8. J. and J to,ch. r. ·' · 1. Th.efe urious ufages aud applications of this Metaphor have giVCII., |