The last part of this commendation, is (as was said) an addition to what he spoke in her commendation: yea, pleasant saith she; This pleasantness, and loveliness doth relate to the communicativeness of Christ's worth, his communicating of what is lovely in him to others; It had not been enough for us, that he had been lovely in himself as God, if he were not also lovely by that relation that is between him and a believer in the Covenant of grace, whereby there is not only a communicableness, but also an actual communication of these things to a believer, which may make him lovely, and beautiful before God. And this makes Christ pleasant, that of his fullness we receive and grace for grace, Joh. 1. 16. When the believer shares of Christ's fullness, he cannot but be beautiful, and Christ cannot but be pleasant. And indeed if we could express any thing of the importance of the word, it is a most material and massy expression, of that inexpressible worth that is in him, and likewise of a believers estimation of it; And, 1. In the general it imports this, A difficulty in commending Christ rightly, there cannot be words gotten for it; the thing that is commendable in him, is so large that words, yea, the most superlative of them, come far short in setting him forth. 2. It sets forth, how unsatisfied believers are with their own expressions of that worth, which they see to be in him; they think the first word unsuitable, and therefore they pass on to another, and in the close, they are forced as it were to give it over, and to say, Thou art altogether lovely. 3. It imports, that there is no kind of thing that may commend Christ, wherein he is defective; he hath not only the materials of beauty (so to say) but he hath the form. All things that are in Christ, are wonderfully delightsome and pleasant to look on. Lastly, this expression implies, ⟨p. 111⟩an exceeding great refreshfulnesse and contentedness, which Christ Jesus doth yield to a believer; and that exceeding great satisfaction and delight, that a believer may have in looking on Christ: This word pleasant, speaks their actual feeding upon the beautiful sight they have gotten of him, so that they cannot be withdrawn from it: Must not Christ be lovely, when his people get eyes to see him?
The last part of this commendation, is (as was said) an addition to what he spoke in her commendation: yea, pleasant saith she; This pleasantnesse, and lovelinesse doth relate to the communicativenesse of Christ's worth, his communicating of what is lovely in him to others; It had not been enough for us, that he had been lovely in himself as God, if he were not also lovely by that relation that is between him and a believer in the Covenant of grace, whereby there is not only a communicablenesse, but also an actual communication of these things to a believer, which may make him lovely, and beautiful before God. And this makes Christ pleasant, that of his fulnesse we receive and grace for grace, Ioh. 1. 16. When the believer shares of Christ's fulnesse, he cannot but be beautiful, and Christ cannot but be pleasant. And indeed if we could expresse any thing of the importance of the word, it is a most material and massy expression, of that inexpressible worth that is in him, and likewise of a believers estimation of it; And, 1. In the general it imports this, A difficulty in commending Christ rightly, there cannot be words gotten for it; the thing that is commendable in him, is so large that words, yea, the most superlative of them, come far short in setting him forth. 2. It sets forth, how unsatisfied believers are with their own expressions of that worth, which they see to be in him; they think the first word unsuitable, and therefore they passe on to another, and in the close, they are forced as it were to give it over, and to say, Thou art altogether lovely. 3. It imports, that there is no kind of thing that may commend Christ, wherein he is defective; he hath not only the materials of beauty (so to say) but he hath the form. All things that are in Christ, are wonderfully delightsome and pleasant to look on. Lastly, this expression implyes, ⟨p. 111⟩an exceeding great refreshfulnesse and contentednesse, which Christ Jesus doth yeeld to a believer; and that exceeding great satisfaction and delight, that a believer may have in looking on Christ: This word pleasant, speaks their actual feeding upon the beautiful sight they have gotten of him, so that they cannot be withdrawn from it: Must not Christ be lovely, when his people get eyes to see him?
