To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
THe Spouse in the Canti∣cles. askeing of her Belo∣veds colours, saith of him, my Beloved is white and red, white of his own pro∣per, so he was when he she∣wed himself in kind trans∣figured on the mount, his apparrel then so white, no Fuller in the earth could come neer it, Math. 17. 2.
Mar. 9. 3. white of him∣selfe, how comes hee red then, not of himselfe, but for us, that is our natu∣rall colour, wee are born polluted in our owne bloud, it is sinnes colour, that for shame, that for shame is the colour of sin; our sins saith Esay,. Ch. 1. are as Crimson, of as deep dye as any purple, this the true tincture of our sins the Edomites. colour right: for Edom. is red. The tin∣cture of our sinne origi∣nall, dyed in the Wool; and then again of our sins actuall, died in the cloath too, twice dryed, so was Christ twice, once in his owne, againe in his ene∣mies.
Right dibaphus,. a perfect full colour, a true purple, of a double dye, his too. So was it meete for crimson sinners to have a crimson Saviour: a Sa∣viour of such a colour it behooveth us to have. Comming then to save us, off went his white, on went our red: Laid by his owne righteousnesse, to bee cloathed with our sinnes. To weare our co∣lours; that wee his, he in our red, that wee in his white. So wee finde (A∣poc. 7.) our robes are not onely washed cleane, but dyed a pure white, in the blood of the Lambe. Yea hee dyed and rose againe,
both in our colours, that we might die, and rise too, in his, he in mount Golgo∣tha, like to us, that we in mount Tabor, might bee like to him.