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Show Cant. 3.1o. 13· Kt{e "P my Love, my fair on~, ~nd comt ~-•Y· Arije, my.Lovr,my fair 011~, ~nd elm~ 11way. I Am now come to the Exhor!ltion, which the Spoufe 1\earcl her B~ lovcd m1ke unto her, repeated v. 10. 13. A.,[r, comt away. • The lixth Propolition formerly obfervcd by me from thtsTexr, was this. -1 . . . . '!bat fll/l#ll f}Je Lord in his providmet, rmsov~th hu Spoll{t_s tmp~dt• m~nts arlo communion ,..ith himf~lf and graNttng aU Ju~ tncouragrlfftnll and advantag11: He doth t:!CpdJ and rrq•irc tblt fh~ fho•ld Ari[r, and come away. . • ' I underfland this Propofiuon, both coneerntng the. Church ln. the general, and every individual Soul, for fo ! _have lnt(rpr~teclthe Spoufe all along in my · difcourfe: The Wtnter and Ramyweather ( as r have lhewed you) fignify the hindrances of this Spoufe in her communion with her Belov_ed. The Ap~rarance_ oftbt Flmrrs,_th e fingiHg of tb~ 'Iurtl~, the ~tg·lret brtllf.tn( foriiJ Figt, &c. are allfigna verif, the ligos of Sprtng and lignify all en· couragements to this communion. Now it was that the Spoufe heareth the voice of her Beloved Arifr, my Love, my f>zr one, and e~m~ an>ay. Hence I have raifed' the Do~rine to whic_h J lhall fpeak, 1. By n>ayofe:ttplicotion. 2. By wayofcolljirmatmtorreil• {on; 3. By way of Applicatioll', . 1. By way of ex.plication we have to enq_Uire, What 4s here meant by Ariftng and comzng aiJ'ay. 2 •. Why the . words' are bubled, v. ro, 13. Ari[r, IIIJ Love myfazr one, and ame .m>ay. I mufl fiill mind you that by theSpouf~ l ·underfland th~Church, . or· particular Souls that are members of }t· The Church IS ufuali_Y diflinguilhed; into that which is lnvllible, and that wbtch IS vilible. The vilible Church we make,the whole number of perfons upon the E·mlY by the P~eaching of the Gofpel, called oil'! from a -llate of Paganifm, to an outward'profelfion of and fubm•~on to the Lord Jefus Chrifl. Which people as they be fcattered mto N.ltions or parilhes make.lll~tiona/ and p•rochtal Cbnrcbn, ( th~t J - . IS, Is, parts of the Catholick Church there inhabiting) the;nvHible <.burch, are rhofe who are not only called out of the Pagan n>orld, but out of a finful world to true Repentance, and Faith in Jefus Chrifi: Thefe are partly in Heaven, Triumphant, partly olf Earth, militant. In the Church i11vi(1blt, there is no Soul in Its natural llate, but it is other wife in the Church vifible. Now there is nothing more plain, than that God ( for the fake of his elt~ in it) owneth the whole vilible Church as his Spoufe. It was to the whole Church that God by Jmmy faid, 'Jer. 3. 12 . Return you unto me,-···-·for I am marrird •• ) 'OU, This various notion of the Church gives Interpreters a great Liberty of abounding in Hof. 2• 19. their interpretations, both of this and other paffa~~s In thi' Song. Ari[< and comt, are both terms of motion. In eYery motion there is a •ttrmiHus a qHo, a term from which, and a trrminHt ad q~tm, a term lo which, to be conlidered b(lides the nature .of the motion it felf; hence three quetlions are Oarted, r. frtJm r~~btHCI file ,fhould llfi{t. 2. to •hom or to r11hat {bt ,{h011ld £Dmt. 3• a.bat ..her ••o111i11g it. 1. From whence would her Beloved have her a rife. Arirr from tbt.jlatt~[llaiHrr. Though II do not think this prln• y, Guild- a4 oipally Intended, yet J lind fo many eminent ltlterpreters Infilling toe. upon It as llhall not wholly pafs it over. Mr. Ainfwortb paralel- Durham, acl leth•thls Text with Eph. 5· ~'4· h•k! thou :th~t flupift, and flua toe. '*P from th~ dtad, and Chrilt lhall give thre-lic/1•; and Mmer :a-ogree! h that the Winter lignilies,Totum [uptriuNrr~~pus qtt• {ub 1t101'1t /itttlltltt 'fJttcatoftti"'"' captivi. The Hate ol nature is not ttnjitly compared to a Winter,as the Wlnter.lign!licth a time .when friends have little or no communion, at that time you were ·'Witha•t G.od i1Hb~rPOrld ( rfairh>theApbtlle Eph. 2, 12.) J am •alfo fure that when the Lord afford~ the means of.grace.and converlion, repen-tance and converfion is then •eminenrly the duty of all thofe rthar are within the pales of the Church, All. •7·30· AndthUilfluof this ig11orance Go/J ..,;,ktil dt, h111 "'"" -comlfla11deth aD nmi #vcry- "'hrr~ to rtptlst. This made our Lord upbraid the Cities of Gora~ n,. Bithf~iJa and•Capernaum,becaufe the.Gofpel had bean•preaah· cd.amongfi'thern. 'Ibis isth~•ondemnatioll ( &ithour Saviour) that light it eo me into the n>orld, IIJfd men lovt d•r'<.nf[s ""'"than ltght. ltnufl confefs ·I rh3<l fome-difficultyto allow this any thing <>f the fenfe of this .place, till. I confidered that •God allowcth 1\ r 2 the |