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These Flagons therefore were types of those Feastings, and of those large draughts of Divine love, that the Lord Jesus draweth for, and giveth to his Spouse in those days that he feasteth with them. For then he saith, Drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved. This he does to cheer her up under her hours of sadness and dejection: For now new Corn makes the young men cheerful, and new Wine the maids; Pro 31.6, 7. Psal. 116.13. Jer. 16.7. Song 5.1. Zech 9.17.

These Flaggons therefore were types of those Feastings, and of those large draughts of Divine love, that the Lord Jesus draweth for, and giveth to his Spouse in those days that he feasteth with them. For then he saith, Drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved. This he does to chear her up under her hours of sadness and dejection: For now new Corn makes the young men chearful, and new Wine the maids; Pro 31.6, 7. Psal. 116.13. Jer. 16.7. Song 5.1. Zech 9.17.

As there were Flagons, so there were Cups, and they are called Cups of Consolation, and Cups of Salvation, because as I said, they were they by which God at his Feastings with his People, or when ⟨p. 144⟩he suppeth with them, giveth out the more large draughts of his love unto his Saints, to revive the spirits of the humble, and to revive the hearts of the contrite ones. At these times God made David's Cup run over. For we are now admitted, if our faith will bear it, to drink freely into this grace, and to be merry with him; Psal. 23.5. Luk. 15.22, 23, 24