The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

4. He is resembled to a Rock, 1 Cor. 10.3. That Rock was Christ^*. He is a Rock in a threefold sense. 1. He is a Rock for offence. The Rock breaks the waves; the Church being built upon Christ, all the adversaries that come against her are like a ship coming full sail against a Rock. 2. A Rock for defence; the Dove hides in the rock, Cant. 2.14. O my Dove in the clefts of the Rock. Christs wounds are the clefts of the Rock where the believing soul, This Dove hides it self. 3. A Rock for comfort; and that two ways, 1. The rock is a screen to shade off ⟨p. 346⟩the heat; so Christ is called, Isa. 32.2. a shadow from the heat; he shades a poor sinner from the scorchings of Gods wrath. 2. Honey came out of the Rock, Isa. 32.13. He made him to suck honey out of the Rock, and oil out of the flinty Rock. The honey of the promises, and the oil of gladness comes out of this blessed rock.

4. He is resembled to a Rock, 1 Cor. 10.3. That Rock was Christ^*. He is a Rock in a threefold sense. 1. He is a Rock for offence. The Rock breaks the waves; the Church being built upon Christ, all the adversaries that come against her are like a ship coming full saile against a Rock. 2. A Rock for defence; the Dove hides in the rock, Cant. 2.14. O my Dove in the clifts of the Rock. Christs wounds are the clifts of the Rock where the beleeving soul, This Dove hides it self. 3. A Rock for comfort; and that two wayes, 1. The rock is a screene to shade off ⟨p. 346⟩