Song of Solomon 6

The husbandman loves his thriving plants; the thriving Christian is God's Hephzibah or chief delight. Christ loves to see the vine flourishing, and the pomegranates budding (Song of Solomon 6:11). Christ accepts the truth of grace, but commends the growth of grace (Matthew 8:10)…

A good Christian has some idea and resemblance of that sparkling holiness which is in the Deity. Christ is infinitely taken with the spiritual beauty of his Church (Song of Solomon 6:4). You are beautiful, O my love as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem.

God himself is the Churches Life-guard. The Lyon of the Tribe of Judah, marcheth in the head of the Saints Army; This makes Jerusalem, terrible as an Army with banners, Cant. 6. 4. Jesus is our Emmanuel; Then, what need we fear though the earth tremble upon her pillars?

Song of Solomon 7:12: "there I will give you my loves." Song of Solomon 6:2: "Your loves are better than wine." Verse 4: "We will remember your loves, more than wine."

The spouse must in Christ's heart have a high respect, when he says (Song of Solomon 4:1): Behold you are fair, my love; and that cannot content him, he adds: Behold, you are fair. In Song of Solomon 6:9: My dove, my undefiled is but one, she is the only one of her mother, she i…

"You have ravished my heart, my sister, my Spouse, you have ravished my heart, with one of your eyes, with a chain of your neck." It is much love that ravishes Christ; indeed it so overcomes him, that he professes it is above him, he must desire his Spouse to look away (Song of…

Many fail in this point, when they come to the Lord's table, they profess themselves to be citizens of the city of God, but in their common dealings in the world, they play the stark rebels against God, and his word, and live according to the lusts of their blind and unrepentant…

Without this they are but a confused Multitude. But an Host or Army with Banners is beautiful and terrible, Cant. 6. 10. Before things were cast into this Order, the Universe was as it were full of Confusion; it had no beauty nor Glory, for the Earth was void and without form, G…

First, we look on them as distinct from mother's children, mentioned in the following verse, as a party different from the Daughters here spoken to; and so they are not to be accounted among the profane, embittered heart-enemies of godliness, who yet live in the Church: they are…

2. It is ordinary upon this ground, thus to join them in other Scriptures, as when an epistle is written to a church, some things are said of it, and to it, as visible, some things again are peculiarly applicable to believers, who are members of the invisible church in it; as by…

For he that does righteousness, is righteous; indeed, it is he that moves heavenward, from a living treasure of gracious principles, and not from external compulsion, as clocks and such dead artificial, yet self-moving engines do. Hence the Church (and a believing soul) says, My…

But the church is the Paradise of the earth, a garden enclosed (Song of Solomon 4:12), in whose hedges the gospel-birds chirp and sing melodiously (Song of Solomon 2:12). Its beds, are beds of spices (Song of Solomon 6:2), and between its pleasant banks, a crystal river of livin…

Husbandmen are much delighted, to see the success of their labors, it comforts them over all their hard pains, and many weary days, to see a good increase. Much more is God delighted, in beholding the flourishing graces of his people; it pleases him to see his plants laden with…

If God delights so much to see the resplendency of that glory that shines in his works, surely it must be a great delight to those that have any work of grace, to see grace shining in others. Besides, there is a blessed fragrancy of graces in Gods people: as the eye is satisfied…

Let us walk so, as to manifest and hold forth the beauty and amiableness of godliness in the eyes of all, that they may see it whether they will or no, and to force esteem from the consciences of men. Cant. 6:4 it is said of the Church, She is terrible as an army with banners; A…

First, in the general, take heed of those sins especially, that those which you converse with are guilty of, that they be not able to spy the same sins in you, which their consciences accuse themselves of: take heed of the pollutions of the world. Cant. 6:10 Who is she that look…

Why is my Soul held any longer with this Earthen fetter of my Flesh? When the Daughters of Ierusalem had conversed a while with the Spouse, and had heard her describe Christs admirable beauty, their Affections began to be enflamed, and they would seek him with her, Song of Solom…

Act as you would expect. 7. There is a supply that comes in before we are aware (Song of Solomon 6:12). Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Aminadab, in the very work.

Weeds spoil the walks; Christ will not walk in a heart overgrown with weeds and briars. Christ was sometimes among the lilies (Song of Solomon 6:3), never among the thistles. Poor sinner, you complain that you have no communion with God; a time was when God made himself known to…

When a spark of fire from flint falls on water or green timber, there is no firing from there. But when actual influences fall upon a heavenly habit, as the Lord can cast in a coal, or a lump and flood of love (Song of Solomon 2:5-6; Luke 24:32; Song of Solomon 6:12), there are…

And their noble one shall be of themselves, and their Governor shall proceed from the midst of them, and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach to me, says the Lord? The love eternal here in JEHOVAH loves an…

What is it that we see in Christ? What do we behold in him? He asks that question concerning his church, "What will you see in the Shulamite?" Whereto he answers, as it were, the company of two armies (Song of Solomon 6:13), or the two churches of the Old and New Testament, in o…

And a great rebuke it ought to be unto us, when Christ has at any time in a day been long out of our minds. The spouse affirms, that before she was aware, her soul made her as the chariots of Amminadib (Song of Solomon 6:12). It so fell out, that when she had no thoughts, no des…

Another instance of the glory of Christ which we are to behold here by faith, and hope to behold by sight hereafter, consists in the mysterious communication of himself and all the benefits of his mediation to the souls of those who believe, for their present happiness and futur…

Yet on the other hand, it is sometimes as the sun when it shines in its brightness, and we cannot bear the rays of it. In infinite condescension he says to his church, "Turn your eyes away from me, for they overwhelm me" (Song of Solomon 6:5) — as if he could not bear that overw…

When the heart is bowed down and is listless to duty, the Spirit of God lifts it up, it puts a sharp edge upon the affections; it makes love ardent, hope lively; The spirit takes off the weights of the soul, and gives wings, Song of Solomon 6:12. Or ever I was aware, my Soul mad…

Sometimes, no doubt, but with all that are true Believers it is so. Or ever I was aware, saith the Spouse, my Soul made me as the Chariots of Amminadab, Cant. 6.12. Grace in her own Soul surprised her into a ready willing Frame to Spiritual Communion with Christ, when she was in…

By them do we hear his Knocking, know his Voice, and open the door of our Hearts to give him entrance, that he may abide and sup with us. Sometimes indeed the Soul is surprized into Acts of Gracious Communion with Christ, Cant. 6.11. But they are not to be expected unless we abi…

Gaius: Forbidden fruit will make you sick; but not what our Lord has tolerated. While they were thus talking, they were presented with another dish, and it was a dish of nuts (Song of Solomon 6:11). Then said some at the table, Nuts spoil tender teeth, especially the teeth of ch…

First, it adorns it with incomparable ornaments, which are of great price in the sight of God (1 Peter 3:4); indeed it reflects such beams of glory in the soul where its seat is, that Christ himself the author, is also the admirer of it (Song of Solomon 4:9): 'You have ravished…

Lovely in the womb, the Ancient of Days became young for me; lovely in the cross, even when despised and numbered with thieves; lovely in the grave; lovely at the right hand of God; lovely in his second appearance in glory. Indeed, all desirable (Song of Solomon 6:10): his count…

2. Sometimes Christ is long before he manifests himself; it is long before some do seek Christ, and it is long before such do find him: Christ waits long to be gracious to them, and Christ does often make them wait long before he manifests to them his loving kindnesses; indeed s…