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Show not only ki-nd and friendly to his Spollfe, but he alloweth them a _great familiarity, and an holy bold!lffs with him, yea and that Dove of his, who is frighted by her own jealoufy and fear into the clef<s oft he Rock, might if he would, if her own unbelief and corruption did not hinder, come freely unto him, ferve God with boldnefs, and holy boldnefs. lt was one end ofChrifi coming, to deliver us from our enemin, th•t we might firvehim rPithoutfrar in holimfr•ndKighteoufnrfr, Lnk. J. 7+· In him we have not o~ly accefs, but boldmfr rPrtb awfs, Eph. 3· 12. Heb. IO. IIJ. Having boldnrfs to enter into the bo(it(l by the blood of Jrfus, v. 22. Let us Jrawnearwithalrue heart infuUafJurance;fo, Heb. 4· I6. Lrtur tome boldly to th< Thront of Grace. The believer may boldly fly, the Lord umy blip, Htb. I 3· 6. and they may boldly come unto him. I hope~ need not tell you, that there is a boldnrft of impudmce, exclufive even of filial and reverential fear; this is finful and by no means becomes• a worm coming into the prefence of ;he Lord of Heaven and Earth, and a boldnefs of Faith, exclufive of finful dillrullful fear; this (not the other ) is the · Saints boldnefs: The Spoufe ofChrifi is the favourite of Heaven. The favourite knoweth how to keep his dillance from his Prince, and to avoid impudent rudenefs with him, yet to ufe his priviledg in a model! free· dom, and familiarity with his Prince, which another not under the like circumftances cannot ufe. ·: Lat\ly, This phrafe denotes the duty ofa believtr, in the exercifes of faith and bolinefr. Thus Mr. A in[ worth Interprets it by Gen. I7· r. walk.. h<{ore me and be tho,. perfetJ, and by thatofthe A pollle, Rom, tz. I. ojftr up your bodies unto God, as a living •nd •«eptable Sacrifice whi<b it your reafonable.Service, Thus the Caldee Paraphrojl,fhew me thy.RightrouJ work.!. Tlius alfo the learned B, za glolfeth upon this Text, petit ut interhu et exttritu, Cbrifto txbibeat eorNm brneficiorum ejfetJa, q11ibus in bunc ufnm Drut iUam •Jfecit. The face is pars hominiuxterior, the external part of a man by which he appeareth to the world; the Spoufe of Chrifl ought not vivere fibi to live meerly to herfelf,and to fatisfy herfelf that {he is all 11,/>TioHs within, and that the Lord knoweth the uprightnefs of her heart before h~m; but lhe mull !hew 14nto Chrifl brr f•ce, the mull !hew her fatth by her works. The profane man, the ~ypocrite, wilt tell you· they have good hearu, but a good heart ts not enough for the Spoufe of Chrill; as he fees his peoples hearts, and that is the main thing indeid, which he looks aftcr,fo l>c he alfo mufi fee thdr face, the goodnefs of their hearts expreA"ed in the holinefs of their life. Thus much may ferve for the Explica· tion of this phrafe, Let me foe thy fact; Chrill de!ireth to fee his Spo11{es fact. But the Text addeth, Thy countenance is comely. ; and according to it, I added in the Propo!ition, That in Chriflt tyes,the countmance of the Brlievtr if comely: r. What is here meant by c.untenance, 2. How it is comely. •· It may be underllood of her outward countenante. Mary Magdalmu face was comely in the eyes of Chrifl when it was all wet with tears, fupplying her hands with water to wafi1 her Lord's feet,. which !he wiped with the hairs of her head. D•vids face was comtly when he walhed his Couch with his t~ars,and his -eyes ran down with Rivers ofWater, becaufe men kept not the Lord> Law. 2. Secondly, It m1y be undertlood·of her inward co11nten•nce, the complexion of her Soul : Her whole perfon is comely. Take her in the whole, ffie is Chrifis fair One. Will you know Low fhe il comely? r. She is comely imputativrly, Ez. I 6. 24. It w•sperfelJ, ,,rough "'Y comelintfs which I bad pr<t upon thee. Amongfl men, that woman may be comely in the eyes of one, in whom another can fee no comelinefs, nothing for which. !he is to be de!irecl , the World . feeth no beauty in a child of God;. hence tliey revile, reproach, a· bufe them, they are as dirty as can be, but in Chrifls Eyes their <ountellance is comely., but this it could not be unlefs there were a real comdinefs in her; ·chrifl cannot be deceived in his judgment of come line[<, though fond men may be. Do you ask then what is the Believers real beo~tty, what is her real comelinefs? I anf wer, it is Chrifis tomeline[s put upon her that is imputed and reckoned to her. About this the prefent generation raifeth great quellions: Some would have no rigbteou[nt{i ofCbri(! imputed totheSoul,neither aCiive nor p•JJive,but the Soul only to fland upon its own leg<, the righteoufne!s which itfclf fpins out, accepted upon the Covenant of Grace. I fear thefe new OpinioHifh will prove miferable c~mforters 10 a dillrelfed Confcience. Others therefore will allow, Chrills paf!iue rigbteoufnr[r, i.e. his obedience to God in fuffering the wrath and curfe of God due to Sin to be imp11ted. By this rneans .the guilt of the Soul before God i• removed and the Soul fiands rel1us in erma, difcharged in the Court of God ; fo that aow it may ling the Apof\lcs Song, who is be that comlemnetb l it if, |