Seventhly, And for their Number they are but an Handful, Isaiah 1. The Tein or Remnant GODs Part is but the Tenth, and the Devil has all the Stock; often GOD has one and the Devil nine; Great need have we to labour to be of GODs tenth. My Dove that Dwells in the Holes of the Rock; We need not to go far off to seek the Exposition of these Words, for CHRIST is the Rock upon which the Kirk is builded. Matthew 16. 28. Upon this Rock will I Build my Church, says CHRIST. And Psalms 18. 2. The LORD is my Rock and Fortress. And GOD is also the Secret Place of the Stairs, where the Kirk hides her from the Storm. So David calls GOD his Secret Place, his Hiding Place. Psalms 32. 7. Thou art a Secret Place to me from Distress, Thou wilt Preserve me, Psalms 91. And because in all this Song we must ever hold up the Line and String of the Allegory of Marriage, and consider the Kirk as the Spouse of CHRIST: The Rock is CHRIST in whom the Kirk dwells by Faith, and CHRIST dwells in her Heart, Ephesians 3. 17. Abide in Me, and I in you John 15. 4: Abide in Me as Branches Imped into the Vine: Now the Imp is ingrafted in a cutted Stock; CHRIST was Hagged, Hewed and Cutted on the Cross, the Stock wherein we are Ingrafted. So that the Holes of the Rock, may well be exponed (as Bernard says) to be the Wounds of CHRIST: So that the Meaning is, O ⟨p. 6⟩O My Dove that by Faith has thy abode in the Wounds and the Holes made in the Hands and Sides of Crucified JESUS: Or, O my Dove that believes and that by Faith has thy abode in the Wounds and abides in CHRIST as an Imp ingrafted in a Tree, in CHRIST when Dead; and so Man flee into CHRIST all Wounded, and Holed for thy Sin, flee into CHRIST thy Rock; and so into GOD: Psalms 18. 2. Hence we see what a Saviour the Kirk believes in; a Saviour that's GOD and Man, as Man to be a Sufferer, and as GOD to be a Supporter, which there was great Necessity of these Two Natures; GOD would not seek Payment of our Debt off His Son as GOD; for by the Law He could not answer, for He was the Creditor, and so could not be the Debtor: And therefore, for the better Understanding of this, I would have you with me to consider, how our Nature, and GODs Nature works to others hands in the Work of our Redemption. A Sinner cannot Dwell in CHRIST as GOD only. There is no Holes nor Chambers for a Sinner to Dwell in GOD;
Seventhly, And for their Number they are but an Handfull, Isaiah 1. The Tein or Remnant GODs Part is but the Tenth, and the Devil has all the Stock; often GOD has one and the Devil nine; Great need have we to labour to be of GODs tenth. My Dove that Dwells in the Holes of the Rock; We need not to go far off to seek the Exposition of these Words, for CHRIST is the Rock upon which the Kirk is builded. Matthew 16. 28. Vpon this Rock will I Build my Church, says CHRIST. And Psalms 18. 2. The LORD is my Rock and Fortress. And GOD is also the Secret Place of the Stairs, where the Kirk hides her from the Storm. So David calls GOD his Secret Place, his Hiding Place. Psalms 32. 7. Thou art a Secret Place to me from Distress, Thou wilt Preserve me, Psalms 91. And because in all this Song we must ever hold up the Line and String of the Allegorie of Marriage, and consider the Kirk as the Spouse of CHRIST: The Rock is CHRIST in whom the Kirk dwells by Faith, and CHRIST dwells in her Heart, Ephesians 3. 17. Abide in Me, and I in you John 15. 4: Abide in Me as Branches Imped into the Vine: Now the Imp is ingrafted in a cutted Stock; CHRIST was Hagged, Hewed and Cutted on the Cross, the Stock wherein we are Ingrafted. So that the Holes of the Rock, may well be exponed (as Bernard says) to be the Wounds of CHRIST: So that the Meaning is, O ⟨p. 6⟩O My Dove that by Faith has thy abode in the Wounds and the Holes made in the Hands and Sides of Crucified JESVS: Or, O my Dove that believes and that by Faith has thy abode in the Wounds and abides in CHRIST as an Imp ingrafted in a Tree, in CHRIST when Dead; and so Man flee into CHRIST all Wounded, and Holled for thy Sin, flee into CHRIST thy Rock; and so into GOD: Psalms 18. 2. Hence we see what a Saviour the Kirk believes in; a Saviour that's GOD and Man, as Man to be a Sufferer, and as GOD to be a Supporter, which there was great Necessitie of these Two Natures; GOD would not seek Payment of our Debt off His Son as GOD; for by the Law He could not answer, for He was the Creditor, and so could not be the Debtor: And therefore, for the better Understanding of this, I would have you with me to consider, how our Nature, and GODs Nature works to others hands in the Work of our Redemption. A Sinner cannot Dwell in CHRIST as GOD only. There is no Holes nor Chambers for a Sinner to Dwell in GOD;
