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VERS. 8.If thou know not O thou fairest among women, get thee out from going in the steppes of yonder flock, and feed thy kiddes aboue the tabernacles of those shepheards.
To this Christ maketh answere; first satisfying her demaund in that wherein she was not fully be∣fore enformed. Bidding her by any meanes to take heed of the worldly prophane and hereticall teachers, and such as are corrupted by them, that
shee tread not in their steps, but to fe••de her little ones, the faithful flocke, with the foode of heauen∣ly doctrine in all sincerity and truth, lifting them vp, out, and from aboue the world.
VERS. 9.Vnto the troope of horses in the chariots of Pharaoh doe I liken thee, my fellow friend.
By this occasion they fall to congratulate one vnto an other, the good things that are in them: CHRIST hee praiseth his owne gifts bestowed vpon the Church, in regard of the dignity of her person, by his word affirming, and by the power of his spirit making her like to the horse of Pharaohs Chariot, braue, stately, and couragious, excellent for all good seruices.
VERS. 10.Thy cheekes are comlie, as with rewes of small stones: thy neck as with collars.
And in regard of the ornaments of the spirit, wherby her cheeks and neck, the principall seates of beauty, are set forth with rewes of precious stones, gemmes, collars, and gorgious things, as horses of those countries were wont to be.
VERS. 11.Borders of Gold wee will make vnto thee, with specks of neate siluer.
And not content therewith promiseth that the Father Sonne and the holy Ghost, the blessed and
glorious Trinity, will further bewtifie, and let her out with all rich graces and ornaments of the spi∣rit, with a continuall grouth of sanctification, as it were pure gold, bewtified with the siluer specks of a new encrease of holinesse, being made more and more glorious by the reflection of his glory.