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Show How the Spo•fe elefre.r will alfo cry out, Turn my Beloved. Davul cryeth out, Pfat, 11 ~, Sz. W'hen rpi/t tboucomfortme! But I will dwell no longer upon fo plain and evident •·Subject. · I have one thing yet further to open. I told yoll the Spoufe cannot befenfibleof the teart withdrawing of her Bdoved from her; but fhe would importune his Return, and that he would come like a Roe, and a young Heart : How ? And why like a Rae, and a yotmg Hart 1 I find BmtJrd hinting a Senfe, in which I find few following in the f/1ape and form of a ma~: but this depend; upon the No tio~ I hinted before of lome, as if this were the Churches Prayer for the Lords ha!tning of his tart coming; when A a. t.lt. H, fhaUfo tome iu lib.! mamzer Jf be a[cended up i11t r1 HMvm: But I have delivered my opinion of the fenfe of the Text otherwife. Ny[Jen fays, as a Roe and ayo~tng Hart, devouring aU the 11oxior11 Strpenu M he comes; but whether thofe hearts have fucb a quality is unknown to us: five thing< may polfibly be more proper to epen the Metaphorical exprelfion. 1. The Roe and the young H""t are peaceable Craturu. God fometimes threaten~ to come to his people a's a Lion, flo!. 5· '4· Sometimes as a Be•r, a-Bear rob'd ofher .Whelps, to devour and· rear; in.oppofition to fuch a comln!;, which their fins might h1ve deferved at her Beloveds hands: the prays that he would be as a. ltoe, and as a young Hart that comes not to do hum to any : the · defires her Lord would come pe4&!ablyto her. lr was a form of Salutation the Jert~r had, Comej! thou pea•eably; 1 Sam. r6. 4• r Kin~r z. 13. The gracious Soul defires the prefenceofChri!t, but fbe defireth he might come pe~ceably,not lzke a Lion; fhe is no.t able to enr· Jnter l:im, bur like a,Roe or a young Hart. 2. Secc. , ;. -r· ,~ Rc.~ and theyou11g H•rt's motion is a pleafont motton. ,_. ,,_ B.oe i· 1 pleafant creature like the plufant Roe, FrJI/, 5· 19. PleafJntin its motion, le~ping uport the Mountainr and. tkjpph•g r<pon tho HiUt, as we had it..ver. S. of this Chapter. Such are rhe gracious returns of Chrill to his Church, and to the Souls of his people: they are exceeding pleafant, and fuch the Spoufe defires they !hould be , that rhe motions of her Beloved to her Soul might be as pleafant as the-motions of 1/.on and H.rtr upon the l\1ountains were to her eyes, l~trfl quafi hinnutur {ttienr, -·-lntret paczficur, intrtt jucundur. & hil>rir. _Intret qu•{i de [em· dt1u tk monti!JHs Btther fe(tivur & [pmdtdr<r, faith BrrnJrd. 3; Thirdly, 3· Thirdly, The monon of a Roe and a youn;: Hm is a moll f wift modon Prov. 6. 5· DeliVer thy [elf,,. • R·" from the hJHdrof the Hunter : Afahel was frv i[t of foot as a wild Roe.. The Spoufe defire,s that her B.!oved would come as a you•g R?t, that is, vdocif] ime m ~ !t {wifily, as SJnfJur in terpreterh it. So Mr. Ainfwortb and Dc/r,., &c. Smely, I come quickly, ( fli rh Chr ift; ) The Spoufc anfwcrerh, Even [o, come Lord ] efur ; nor only, Con~t Lord J efor , but even f• come Lord Jefus ; !he ddi res his q >ick and fpce. d y COI~H n g. Hope deferred mlkes the heart liok , the Soul full of Love IS lmpa!lent of delay. The Soul in all cafes of DJertion is looki•;g out at the windows of Faith and Hope, and crying wirh Sifcra 1 Mother, Why u hu Cbmot {o /on;, a c1ming? But thou 0 Lord, how lonf!. ( laith David,) Pf..lm 6. 3· So Pfiim 1 3· 1, 2: Pfolm 3 5·•7· P{a/.79:5· Pf../.90. IS· Rfturn, 0 Lord ,"''"' loog 1 4· Fourthly, By this e~prellion, fh' d,pruater the impediment of aU difficultrff, as the he1ghth of the M.Juntains, and the depths ·of the Valleys are no Remoraes ar all to the Rou and yoong Hzrtr: The~ come, as we heard it, vrr. S. leaping upon the mountains, and skjppmg upon the h1Ur: So the Spoufc deli res, that there might be nothing might hinder the fruition · of her Beloved. Thus B, z .• interpreteth it, Exoptat ut nNOa prorfiu dif!icultar advmtttm [p.,1fi mltoretur. He thinks this Verre well interpreted by that E]"V 64• I. That God rr>ould w <d the be<vens and come dJr»n, and the m•JUn• NiHJ might flow do"' II at bir pr.(encc ; That the dilbncc betwiKt Heaven and E_arth,, (fo fome i?terpret it) might be nothing; that her own lms mtght be nothmg, ( fo others interpret it. ) In fhort, That nothing might !land in the way of her full enjoyment of her Beloved, more than a Rock or a Mountain can !land m the way of a Roe or a young lilt! which leaps opon.tire one, and skips upon the other. Sl11l1 I add one thing•rt 'lre . ~lb nt. 5· I !hall borrow my foundation fro~: ""'~:.orin thts'Chapter, where !he had faid, My B:loved il lib.! a Roe, and a yo,.nr Hlrt, There fhe had faid, he was like a Roe and likf a Y'""f!. H>r/; Here fhe prays he would he lib.! a Roe and a yott.<g Htrt: wh1t is this but that he would be lik,e b,m[e/f, and come lib.! himfi'lf to her? God fometimes comes to ?is people in an affumed, bor. rowed flupe: fo he comes as a Lron, as a Bear, as 11 M1th. When he comes to execute Judgment, he cJIIs Judgment his ,.,,J:., but his/iranze·rr>Jrk,: his work which he never proceedeth to, but as it were netellitated for the honour of his J~~i~e when the Sins of |