A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

We will remember thy love more than Wine, the upright love thee; Behold thou art fair my beloved, yea pleasant, also our bed is green. A bundle of myr •h is my beloved unto me, he shall lye all night betwixt my breasts.— I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sw ••t to my taste; He brought me to the Banqueting-house, and his B ••••r over me was love: Stay me with Flagons, comfort me with […], for ⟨image 11⟩I am sick of love; His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me; My beloved is mine, and I am his; I am my beloveds, and his desire is towards me; I found him whom my Soul loved, I held him and would not let him go; Set me as a seal upon thy heart, and as a seal on thine arm; Love is strong as death— many waters cannot quench love, neither can the ••oods drown it; I charge you O Daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, I am sick of love. Come my beloved, let us go up early to the Vine-yards, let us see if the Vines flourish — there will I g •ve the my loves; make hast my beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a young Heart on the Mountains of Spices. How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love for delights! O my Dove—let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely, thou hast ravished my heart my Sister my Spouse with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck; turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.— He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and manifest my self to him. If any man love me he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him: As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you, continue ye in my love: If ye keep my Commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Fathers Commandments and abide in his love. The love of Christ constraineth us: we love him because he first loved us; the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us: whom having not seen ye love, and whom though now ye see him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.—That ye may with all Saints be able to comprehend what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, a •d to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge. Are these, I say, Romances?