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Thirteenthly, and lastly: Jesus Christ is the real Christians only Beloved; he is the Saints only darling, 2 Can. 3. As the Apple-tree among the Trees of the Wood, so is my Beloved among the Sons: ver. 8. The v•yce of my Beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the Mountains, and §8skipping upon the hills; ver. 9. My Beloved is like a Roe, or a young Hart, ver. 10. My Beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up my Love, my fair one, and come away, ver. 17. Turn my Beloved, and be thou like a Roe, or a young Hart upon the Mountains of Bether. Can. 4. 16. Let my Beloved come into his Garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Seven times Christ is called the Beloved of his Spouse in the fifth of Canticles, and twice in the sixth Chapter, and four times in the seventh Chapter, and once in the eighth Chapter. In this Book of Solomons Song, Christ is called the Churches Beloved just twenty times. I might turn you to many other Scriptures, but in the mouth of twenty Witnesses you may be very clearly and fully satisfied, that Jesus Christ is the Saints Beloved. 1. When the Dutch Martyr was asked whether he did not love his Wife and Children, he Answered, Were all the World a lump of gold, and in my hand to dispose of, I would give it to live with my Wife and Children in a Prison, but Christ is dearer to me than all. 2. Saith Jerome, If my Father should stand before me, and if my Mother should hang upon me, and my Brethren should press about me, I would break through my Brethren, throw down my Mother, and tread under-foot my Father, that I might cleave the faster and closer unto Jesus Christ. 3. That Blessed Virgin in Basil, being condemned for Christianity to the fire, and having her Estate and Life offered her if she would worship Idols, cried out. Let money perish, and life vanish, Christ is better than all. 4. Love made Hierom to say, O! my Saviour, didst thou dye for love of me, a love more dolorous than death, but to me a death more lovely than love it self. I cannot live, love thee and be longer from thee 5. Henry Voes said, If I ⟨p. 12⟩had ten heads, they should all off for Christ. 6. John Ardley Martyr said, If every hair of my head were a man, they should all suffer for the Faith of Christ. 7. Ignatius said, Let fire, racks, pulleys, yea, & all the torments of Hell, come on me, so I may win Christ. 8.

Thirteenthly, and lastly: Jesus Christ is the real Christians only Beloved; he is the Saints only darling, 2 Can. 3. As the Apple-tree among the Trees of the Wood, so is my Beloved among the Sons: ver. 8. The vyce of my Beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the Mountains, and