That sucked the breasts of my Mother.
The Spouse is not contented onely to have Christ
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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- 1651.
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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 19, 2024.
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as a Brother, but as a most naturall, kind Brother, be∣cause many times it falleth out, that brethren are at great jarres, through the neglect or forgetfullnesse of those brotherly bonds between them: therefore the Spouse desireth that Christ may be a most naturall, kind-hearted brother to her, as one that sucked her Mother, for betweene brethren of the same Mother, the love and affections are the most ardent, as is testi∣fied by Joseph, in his affections toward his Brother Ben∣jamin, Gen. 43. 29, 30. By the Mother here we may understand the heavenly Jerusalem, which is above, which the Apostle calls, The Mother of us all, Gal. 4. 26. To suck the breasts of this Mother is to partake, and enjoy the sweet refreshing comforts of the Church, or assembly of the first borne, to be refreshed with the fat∣nesse, and sweetnesse of Gods house, towit, the sweet consolations of the Spirit, Isa. 66. 10. 11. Now we must know that Christ and his people make but one body, and is mystically called Christ, 1 Cor. 12. 12. and therefore here, where it is said, that Christ doth suck these breasts, it is meant of Saints, or Christ in the Saints is refreshed and comforted.
Hence Observe, First,
That the Spouse is very earnest and desirous of a neer bro∣therhood and communion with Christ. O that thou wert as my Brother, &c. Nothing satisfies the Saints but fel∣lowship with the Father and the Sonne, nothing but a sweet communion with Christ, in all his graces. The Saints are onely delighted with his love and sweet∣nesse, and continually desire in a most comfortable and familiar way to enjoy his divine presence.
Secondly Observe,
That Christ is refreshed in his Saints refreshments. For
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as you heard before, he and his Saints are one body, and hence it is, that when Saints are begotten unto God, Christ is formed in them, Gal. 4. 19. and as they are nourished by the sincere milke of the word, so is Christ also nourished, & grows more & more in stature and fullnesse. For that which is properly the person of the Saint, or the Saint-ship it selfe, is part of Christ: Christ is diffused into all his Saints, and they all make but one compleat body, and therefore as the body is said to suck the breasts of spirituall consolation, Christ may also be said to suck those breasts, for it is Christ in the Saints that is nourished: so when the Saints en∣crease, it is the increasings of the Lord, and the growth of the Saints is the growth of Christ.
It followeth.