1. By her exceeding great care to keep his Company and society, §. 12 when once she had obtained it, ch. 2. 7. I charge you, O ye Daughters of Jerusalem, by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my beloved until he please. Having obtained sweet communion with Christ, described in the verses foregoing, of which before, here she expresseth her delight in it, and desire of the continuance of it: and therefore following on the Allusion formerly insisted on, she speaks as one would do to her Companion, that had rest with one she loved: I ⟨p. 142⟩charge you by all that is dear to you, by the things you most delight in, which among the Creatures are most lovely, all the pleasant and desirable things that you can think of, that you disturb him not: The sum of her aim and desire is, that nothing may fall out, nothing of sin or provocation happen that may occasion Christ to depart from her, or to remove, from that dispensation wherein he seemed to take that rest in her. O stir him not up until he please, that pis, never, [Greek or Hebrew], Love its self: in the abstract to express a [Greek or Hebrew], or earnest affection, for so that word is often used: When once the soul of a Believer hath obtained sweet and real Communion with Christ, it looks about him, watcheth all temptations, all ways whereby sin might approach, to disturb him in his enjoyment of his dear Lord and Saviour, his rest and desire. How doth it charge it self, not to omit any thing, not to do any thing, that may interrupt the communion obtained. And because the common entrance of Temptations, which tend to the disturbance of that rest and complacency which Christ takes in the soul, is from delightful 2diversions from actual communion with him, therefore is desire strong and active, that the companions of such a soul, those with whom it doth converse, would not by their proposals or allurements, divert it into any such frame, as Christ cannot delight, nor rest in. A believer that hath gotten Christ in his arms, is like one that hath found great spoils, or a pearl of price. He looks about him every way, and fears every thing, that may deprive him of it. Riches make men watchful; and the actual sensible possession of him, in whom are all the riches and treasure of God, will make men look about them for the keeping of him.
1. By her exceeding great care to keep his Company and society, §. 12 when once she had obtained it, ch. 2. 7. I charge you, O yee Daughters of Hierusalem, by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stirre not up, nor awake my beloved untill he please. Having obtained sweet communion with Christ, described in the verses foregoing, of which before, here she expresseth her delight in it, and desire of the continuance of it: and therefore following on the Allusion formerly insisted on, she speaks as one would doe to her Companion, that had rest with one she loved: I ⟨p. 142⟩charge you by all that is deare to you, by the things you most delight in, which among the Creatures are most lovely, all the pleasant and desireable things that you can think of, that you disturbe him not: The summe of her ayme and desire is, that nothing may fall out, nothing of sinne or provocation happen that may occasion Christ to depart from her, or to remove, from that dispensation wherein he seemed to take that rest in her. O stirre him not up untill he please, that pis, never, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Love its selfe: in the abstract to expresse a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or earnest affection, for so that word is often used: When once the soule of a Believer hath obtained sweet and reall Communion with Christ, it looks about him, watcheth all temptations, all wayes whereby sinne might approach, to disturbe him in his enjoyment of his deare Lord and Saviour, his rest and desire. How doth it charge it selfe, not to omit any thing, not to doe any thing, that may interrupt the communion obtained. And because the common entrance of Temptations, which tend to the disturbance of that rest and complacency which Christ takes in the soule, is from delightfull 2diversions from actuall communion with him, therefore is desire strong and active, that the companions of such a soule, those with whom it doth converse, would not by their proposalls or allurements, divert it into any such frame, as Christ cannot delight, nor rest in. A believer that hath gotten Christ in his armes, is like one that hath found great spoyles, or a pearle of price. He looks about him every way, and feares every thing, that may deprive him of it. Riches make men watchfull; and the actuall sensible possession of him, in whom are all the riches and treasure of God, will make men look about them for the keeping of him.
- pAeternitatem temporis juxta sensum mystieum in se includit, ut aliàs in Scriptura; quia nunquam a tali somno, id est, conjunctione cum sponso, excitari velit.
- 2Mor. in loc.
