That shee is sick of love.
The Greeke rendereth it, wounded with love: that is, with languishing desires after him. This is exceeding great love, that she commeth to be love-sick, as
An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.
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- An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.
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- Robotham, John, fl. 1654.
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"An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91908.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.
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one ready to languish, and faint away with love, here's a sicknesse, but not unto death, but unto life, a sick∣nesse that still bringeth comfort and satisfaction with it, a sicknesse that shall be cured with Christ, the great Phisition.
Hence Observe.
First, That true affections towards Christ, will desire in∣enlargement from others.
The Spouse here desireth these daughters to tell Christ of her affection towards him; to the end, that Christ might more and more discover his love and fa∣vour unto her. The Apostle desired that the Thessolo∣nians would pray for him, That he might be delivered from unreasonable men, 1 Thess. 3. 2.
Secondly, Observe.
That there is a distemper and unquietnesse in the affecti∣ons of the Saints, in the want of the full enjoyment of Christ.
There is no contentment without union, and en∣joyment, and the more excellent the thing is that is loved, the more contentment there is in communion with it, and where it is hindred in the least degree or measure, there is disquietnesse; such as is the content∣ment in injoying, such is the sorrow and sicknesse in parting. The greatest happinesse of the Spouse was in the injoyment of her beloved; and the greatest of her sorrow and sicknesse is in parting with him. But now if the flesh had borne sway, that would have rea∣soned after another way, as thus: I opened the doore, and he withdrew himselfe, and by that occasion I have suffered great calamitie, therefore I have small cause to love him: seeing he doth hide himselfe from me, and cause me to be thus stricken and wounded, why should I set my heart upon him? The flesh I say would
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minister such kinde of reasons, but the Saints are not led by the flesh and its wisdome, but by the Spirit which teacheth them, the more they suffer for Christ, the more to love him. This is a thing beyond the reach of humane reason, the Spouse having fallen into so great affliction by seeking after her head Christ, is thereupon sick of love. The Saints rejoyce in tribu∣lation, and count it their honour to suffer for Christ, and the more they suffer in his name, he doth so strengthen them, and worke in them by the Spirit, that the more they love him. Thus having heard, what the Spouse saith to the daughters of Jerusalem: let us now see what answer they doe make.