A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the…

the whole of this work is already discharged in that discourse which these impertinent Cavils are raised against, and that suitably to the sense of the Church in all Ages, and of all sound Expositors of those very many places of Scripture which I have urged and insisted on to that purpose. Let him if he please a little lay aside the severity of his Corrections, and befooling of Men, and answer any Material passage in the whole discourse if he be able, or discover any thing in it not agreeable to the Analogy of Faith, or the sense of the Ancient Church, if he can. And though he seem both here and in some of his ensuing pages, to have a particular […] of what is cited or improved ou• of the Book of Canticles to this purpose; yet if he either deny, that that whole Book doth mystically express the conjugal Relation that is between Christ and his Church, with their mutual affections and delight in each other; or that the places particularly insisted on by me, are not duly applied unto their proper intention; ⟨p. 205⟩I can at least confirm them both, by the Authority of such persons as whose Antiquity and Learning will exercise the utmost of his confidence in calling them Fools for their pains.

the whole of this work is already discharged in that discourse which these impertinent Cavils are raised against, and that suitably to the sence of the Church in all Ages, and of all sound Expositors of those very many places of Scripture which I have urged and insisted on to that purpose. Let him if he please a little lay aside the severity of his Corrections, and befooling of Men, and answer any Material passage in the whole discourse if he be able, or discover any thing in it not agreeable to the Analogy of Faith, or the sence of the Ancient Church, if he can. And though he seem both here and in some of his ensuing pages, to have a particular 〈…〉 of what is cited or improved ou• of the Book of Canticles to this purpose; yet if he either deny, that that whole Book doth mystically express the conjugal Relation that is between Christ and his Church, with their mutual affections and delight in each other; or that the places particularly insisted on by me, are not duly applyed unto their proper intention; ⟨p. 205⟩