A96109:420
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1657
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CANT. 5.16. Yea, he is altogether lovely.
IN this book (which is a Divine Epithalamium or Marriage-Song) are all the strains of holy love set forth in the purest allegories and metaphors, such as do represent that dear affection and union between Christ, and his Church. The Text is nothing else but the breathing forth of the Spouses love to Christ, He is ⟨p. 328⟩altogether lovely, in the verses precedent she had made her sacred Panegyrics, and had been setting Christ forth in his spiritual embroidery.
IN this book (which is a Divine Epithalamium or Marriage-Song) are all the strains of holy love set forth in the purest allegories and metaphors, such as do represent that dear affection and union between Christ, and his Church. The Text is nothing else but the breathing forth of the Spouses love to Christ, He is ⟨p. 328⟩altogether lovely, in the verses precedent she had made her sacred Panegyricks, and had been setting Christ forth in his spiritual embroidery.
V. 10 He is white and ruddy, v. 10. This denotes the excellency of complexion*; in him is a mixture of the purest colours; he is of unspotted beauty.
- *Perfecta pulchritudo sita est in suavitate caloris, & harmonia membrorum. Plato