Or, The sweet wine made of my Pomegranate: the word here turned juyce, or sweet wine, signifies generally al moisture, which either by expressing or treading, is fetcht from any fruit, for it is derived of a word, that sig∣nifieth to expresse or tread downe, but because he ad∣deth Pomegranates, we may take it for the moisture, juyce, or liquor, that is or may be wrung from them. In a word, she meaneth, that if she might indeed be partaker of Christ, and enjoy sweetnesse and fellow∣ship with him, she would most comfortably and joy∣fully entertaine, and receive him, for under these me∣taphors, taken and borrowed from an earthly banquet she meaneth nothing else, but the spirituall entertain∣ment of her beloved, and that his teaching shold not be fruitlesse in her, but she would honour Christ with graces, and being sweetned with the spices of his spi∣rit, the fruit thereof should redound to him.
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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"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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Hence Observe.
That the Saints honour Christ with the fruits of his owne Spirit.
When Christ administreth to us by his Spirit, he giveth us wine to drinke, as in Isa. 55. 1. 3. And when wee bring forth the fruits of the Spirit, he counteth himselfe as refreshed with wine, as in Chap. 5. 10. This is the spirituall entertainement, that the Spouse gi∣veth her beloved, she presents him with a dainty ban∣quet of spiced wine, the fruits of his owne spirit, praise and glorie, which is very pleasing unto him, which is contrary to that cup in the womans hand, full of ab∣hominations and filthinesse of her fornication, to wit, the fruits of the flesh and Antichrist, with which wine the inhabitants of the earth were made drunke, Revel. 17. 2, 4. The fruits of divine presence, and of the spi∣rit of Christ in the Saints is sweet, comfortable, and pleasant, like to spiced wine, and the juice of the Pomegra∣nate, It followeth in the next verse.