THE
MYSTICAL
MARRIAGE
.
I.
The
soule
seeketh
a
Husband
,
and
findes
him
.
I
WAS
first
breathed
from
heaven
,
and
I
came
from
God
in
my
Creation
;
I
am
divine
and
heavenly
,
in
my
originall
,
in
my
essence
,
in
my
character
,
and
therfore
my
happines
must
be
divine
and
heavenly
:
For
to
a
divine
and
heavenly
essence
,
can
agree
no
other
but
a
divine
and
heavenly
happinesse
.
I
am
a
spirit
,
though
a
low
one
,
and
God
is
a
Spirit
,
even
the
highest
one
;
and
God
who
is
a
Spirit
,
is
the
fountaine
of
this
spirit
.
Where
should
a
low
spirit
finde
happinesse
but
in
the
highest
Spirit
?
and
where
should
a
created
Spirit
seeke
happinesse
but
in
the
Spirit
that
created
it
?
Wherefore
being
a
Spirit
I
will
fasten
my selfe
on
a
spiritual
happinesse
,
and
this
spirituall
happinesse
I
will
looke
for
in
no
other
,
but
in
the
first
,
and
best
Spirit
,
beyond
whom
there
is
neither
good
,
nor
being
.
Then
what
hast
thou
to
doe
O
soule
,
any
longer
among
these
grosse
,
thicke
,
and
bodily
things
here
below
,
to
cast
thy
love
on
them
,
or
to
seeke
happinesse
in
them
?
what
are
they
to
thee
?
or
what
agreeablenesse
is
there
betweene
thy
purity
,
and
their
grossenesse
?
The
bodie
that
lives
by
breathing
the
thinne
element
of
ayre
,
may
as
well
live
in
the
bottome
of
the
thicke
water
,
as
thou
canst
live
,
continue
,
much
lesse
better
thy
Being
,
by
sucking
these
grosse
and
bodily
Creatures
.
Thy
being
is
of
a
higher
and
purer
nature
,
and
therefore
thy
well-being
must
bee
fetched
from
something
that
is
higher
and
purer
than
they
.
The
maine
use
of
them
is
to
serve
the
body
,
which
is
some
kinne
to
their
grossenesse
,
but
remember
that
the
bodie
it selfe
is
to
serve
the
soule
,
and
what
base
felicity
must
that
be
,
which
she
shall
find
in
her
servants
servant
?
Much
more
reasonable
were
it
for
the
soule
to
fetch
her
well-being
from
some
being
higher
,
and
better
than
her selfe
,
(
for
such
onely
can
better
her
,
)
and
withall
to
lift
up
the
body
to
the
participation
of
the
soules
high
and
spirituall
happinesse
,
(
for
there
is
a
naturall
body
,
and
there
is
a
spirituall
body
)
then
that
the
body
should
draw
downe
the
soule
to
the
grosse
and
transitory
things
that
are
given
to
serve
the
body
,
in
the
bodies
service
of
the
soule
.
And
thus
may
man
be
perfectly
happy
,
the
soule
a
spirit
by
union
with
the
highest
Spirit
,
and
the
body
by
union
with
the
soule
,
united
also
to
that
Spirit
.
And
now
the
soule
is
resolved
of
her
choise
,
for
she
hath
fixed
her
love
on
that
Spirit
,
which
is
the
true
object
of
the
love
of
spirits
.
But
even
that
excellency
,
which
draweth
her
love
,
awaketh
her
fear
,
and
beholding
admirable
purity
and
majesty
,
together
with
her
owne
impurity
and
lownesse
,
shee
is
moved
at
once
both
to
runne
to
happinesse
,
and
to
fly
from
it
.
Shee
stands
distracted
,
and
in
this
distraction
asketh
;
Will
God
indeede
dwell
with
men
?
and
will
the
highest
Spirit
who
inhabiteth
eternity
,
and
cannot
abide
iniquity
,
dwell
with
low
spirits
that
are
defiled
,
and
be
full
of
impurity
?
Who
shall
dwell
with
the
devouring
fire
,
and
who
shall
dwell
with
everlasting
burnings
?
But
the
Lord
himselfe
speaketh
to
her
,
and
saith
,
Feare
not
,
for
thy
maker
is
thine
husband
,
(
the
Lord
of
Hosts
is
his
Name
)
and
thy
Redeemer
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
,
the
God
of
the
whole
earth
.
It
is
the
glory
of
the
greatest
spirit
to
blesse
the
lesser
spirits
,
as
it
is
the
happinesse
of
the
lesser
to
bee
blessed
by
the
greatest
.
Fulnesse
is
glorified
most
by
filling
the
greatest
emptinesse
,
and
majesty
by
succouring
greatest
infirmity
.
As
for
thy
impurity
,
true
it
is
that
thou
art
indeed
too
uncleane
to
touch
God
in
an
immediate
unity
;
but
there
is
a
pure
counterpart
of
thy
nature
,
and
that
pure
humanity
is
immediatly
knit
to
the
purest
Deity
.
And
by
that
immediate
union
,
thou
maist
come
to
a
mediate
union
.
For
the
Deity
,
and
that
humanity
being
united
,
make
one
Savior
,
Head
and
Husband
of
soules
;
and
thou
being
married
to
him
who
is
God
,
in
him
art
also
one
with
God
.
He
one
by
a
personall
union
,
thou
one
by
a
mysticall
.
And
being
thus
united
and
married
to
him
,
his
spirit
flowes
into
thy
spirit
,
and
the
sappe
of
the
Deity
sheds
it selfe
into
the
soule
.
For
as
man
and
wife
in
a
corporall
marriage
,
are
one
flesh
,
so
in
this
spirituall
and
mysticall
marriage
,
Christ
and
his
spouse
are
one
spirit
.
The
spirit
of
Christ
entring
into
our
spirits
,
layes
in
them
an
immortal
seed
,
and
from
thenceforth
those
whom
he
found
impure
,
he
makes
pure
;
even
pure
in
heart
,
so
that
they
may
see
God
.
The
Sonne
of
God
so
loved
the
soules
of
men
,
that
hee
would
make
them
a
wife
,
and
marry
them
.
And
that
hee
might
make
this
wife
fit
to
be
brought
into
his
Fathers
house
,
hee
left
his
Father
to
come
to
his
wife
,
that
he
might
cleanse
her
from
spots
&
blemishes
,
and
present
her
pure
&
glorious
to
his
Father
.
By
his
precious
blood
he
purgeth
her
from
her
guilt
,
&
by
his
spirit
he
purifieth
her
from
her
uncleannesse
;
and
both
of
these
hee
bestoweth
on
her
in
his
marriage
with
her
.
And
then
the
soule
thus
washed
,
hath
boldnesse
to
approach
unto
God
,
through
her
husband
,
the
Sonne
of
God
,
who
hath
loued
her
,
and
giuen
himselfe
for
her
,
and
giuen
himselfe
unto
her
.
For
God
beholds
her
,
and
she
beholds
God
,
as
one
with
his
Sonne
,
euen
as
his
Sonnes
wife
.
Then
draw
neere
O
soule
to
this
husband
of
soules
,
the
Lord
is
the
spirit
that
marieth
spirits
,
and
makes
them
one
spirit
with
him
in
a
knot
of
eternall
blessednes
.
Cleare
vp
thine
eye
,
and
fixe
it
on
him
as
upon
the
fairest
of
men
,
the
perfection
of
spirituall
beauty
,
the
treasure
of
heauenly
joy
,
the
true
object
of
most
feruent
loue
,
and
inflamed
affections
:
and
accordingly
fasten
on
him
,
not
thine
eye
only
,
but
thy
mightiest
loue
,
and
hottest
affections
.
Looke
on
him
so
,
that
thou
maiest
lust
after
him
,
for
here
it
is
a
sinne
,
not
to
looke
that
thou
maist
lust
,
and
not
to
lust
hauing
looked
.
For
the
spirit
hath
his
lust
also
;
My
wellbeloved
is
mine
,
and
I
am
my
wellbeloveds
.
To
this
end
bee
still
gazing
on
him
,
and
still
calling
on
him
;
Kisse
me
with
the
kisses
of
thy
mouth
;
Yea
kisse
my
soule
with
such
a
kisse
of
thy
spirit
,
that
they
may
be
no
longer
two
,
but
one
spirit
:
say
to
him
whom
haue
I
in
heauen
but
thee
,
and
whom
haue
I
desired
on
earth
besides
thee
?
My
soule
thirsteth
,
and
panteth
for
thee
the
liuing
God
.
Tell
him
that
thou
art
sicke
of
loue
.
Vexe
him
with
Importunity
,
and
put
him
out
of
hope
of
ease
,
(
as
the
widdow
did
the
Iudge
)
but
onely
by
satisfiing
thy
desires
.
It
is
the
right-voyce
of
the
spirit
,
I
found
him
whom
my
soule
loveth
,
I
held
him
and
would
not
let
him
go
.
If
then
thou
hast
found
him
with
thine
eye
,
hold
him
with
thine
heart
,
and
winde
thy
affections
round
about
him
.
And
if
he
see
thee
all
on
flame
with
loue
,
and
obstinate
in
Importunity
by
loue
,
he
who
is
loue
,
cannot
deny
the
importunity
of
loue
.
The
bowels
of
loue
in
him
,
melt
at
the
sound
of
loue
in
thee
,
as
one
string
danceth
at
the
sound
of
another
agreeing
with
it
.
Hee
was
great
with
loue
before
thou
louedst
him
,
and
hee
looked
but
for
a
loue
to
draw
his
loue
from
him
.
Hee
was
great
with
spirit
,
and
did
but
looke
for
spirits
,
that
by
loue
would
draw
some
spirit
from
him
.
And
now
when
his
loue
meeteth
with
thine
,
II.
The
soule
hath
but
one
husband
at
once
.
THere
is
a
law
in
heaven
,
that
the
heavenly
Bride
may
at
one
time
have
but
one
Husband
.
The
first
marriage
on
earth
was
a
patterne
of
this
Law
,
for
then
God
gave
one
woman
to
one
man
:
God
that
made
this
first
marriage
,
gave
not
two
women
to
one
man
,
nor
two
men
to
one
woman
,
but
he
gave
one
to
one
,
that
two
(
not
three
or
foure
)
may
be
one
flesh
.
Accordingly
the
heavenly
marriage-makers
espouse
the
Church
to
one
husband
,
and
that
they
may
doe
so
,
And
indeed
she
may
well
be
weary
of
the
old
,
for
her
living
with
him
is
most
unreasonable
,
most
slavish
,
and
most
miserable
.
It
is
most
unreasonable
,
for
there
is
no
sense
in
the
mariage
of
a
soule
with
lust
.
What
good
can
lust
do
to
a
soule
?
there
being
no
likenesse
,
but
a
meere
contrariety
betweene
them
:
and
wee
know
that
things
are
cherished
and
augmented
by
their
like
,
but
they
are
destroyed
by
their
contraries
.
The
soule
is
light
,
and
lust
is
darknesse
,
and
can
darknesse
give
any
increase
of
being
or
wellbeing
to
light
?
Yea
doth
not
darknesse
goe
about
to
lessen
,
to
quench
and
kill
light
?
Againe
,
lust
hath
in
it
a
venome
contrary
to
goodnesse
,
and
can
evill
give
any
accesse
or
addition
of
goodnesse
to
the
soule
?
Yea
this
venome
hath
in
it
a
force
and
power
to
draw
the
wil
and
affections
from
that
soveraigne
good
,
which
is
the
true
and
onely
beatificall
object
of
the
soule
,
and
to
glue
and
fasten
her
to
objects
of
vanity
,
yea
of
death
and
misery
.
Againe
,
the
soule
in
her
substance
is
a
spirit
,
and
what
kindly
or
naturall
pleasure
or
profit
can
a
spiritual
essence
receive
from
grosse
and
fleshly
lust
?
The
soule
hath
no
savour
in
the
ranke
and
grosse
pleasures
of
the
flesh
,
but
they
are
to
her
as
the
onions
and
garlike
of
Egypt
to
a
dainty
&
delicate
taste
.
Surely
so
well
may
the
earth
lighten
the
Sunne
,
and
a
tempest
give
rest
to
the
sea
,
as
lust
can
give
light
,
or
life
,
or
rest
or
happinesse
to
the
soule
:
but
darknesse
and
death
,
and
misery
it
can
and
doth
give
,
and
so
under
the
shape
of
an
husband
it
is
a
cruell
enemy
and
a
very
murtherer
of
the
soule
.
And
surely
hee
could
be
no
other
but
a
mortall
enemy
of
the
soule
,
that
made
such
a
marriage
betweene
the
soule
and
her
mortall
enemy
:
And
hee
had
neede
to
be
as
cunning
as
malicious
,
to
put
a
shew
of
reason
upon
a
match
so
absurd
and
unreasonable
.
And
if
in
a
second
place
wee
beholde
the
slavery
of
the
soule
in
this
marriage
with
lust
,
the
teares
that
bewailed
the
virginity
of
Iephthahs
daughter
,
are
not
sufficient
to
bewaile
this
slavish
marriage
.
The
body
commands
the
soule
,
earth
heaven
,
and
dust
that
noble
and
divine
essence
which
was
breathed
into
man
,
even
from
Gods
owne
mouth
,
and
had
his
owne
image
imprinted
on
it
.
Neither
is
it
the
body
of
dust
onely
that
commands
the
heavenly
soule
,
but
the
body
it selfe
being
commanded
by
lust
,
doth
command
the
soule
;
so
is
lust
the
chiefe
lord
both
of
body
and
soule
;
even
a
certaine
venome
,
itch
and
fury
dwelling
in
this
earth
of
man
.
There
may
be
some
proportion
betweene
the
dust
which
God
turned
into
a
body
,
and
that
soule
which
God
made
with
his
breath
,
though
in
a
large
and
remote
distance
and
difference
.
But
betweene
the
soule
which
God
made
according
to
his
owne
image
,
and
this
blinde
and
wilde
lust
which
God
made
not
in
man
,
there
is
no
portion
or
part
of
proportion
,
whereupon
any
right
or
power
of
command
may
be
grounded
.
Yet
in
this
base
and
wretched
marriage
,
vile
and
odious
lust
spurs
up
the
soule
with
his
commands
,
and
makes
her
to
trudge
up
and
down
in
businesses
of
darknesse
,
filthinesse
and
wretchednes
:
The
soule
is
set
on
work
in
things
that
are
no
kin
to
her
,
no
good
to
her
,
yea
that
are
contrary
to
her
being
and
well-being
:
For
contrary
they
are
to
that
image
of
God
which
is
in
her
,
and
consequently
contrary
to
that
God
whose
image
this
is
,
and
to
whom
this
image
points
and
leades
her
as
to
her
soveraigne
good
.
And
thus
have
wee
a
third
mischiefe
of
this
marriage
;
even
misery
annexed
to
slavery
.
For
as
the
image
of
God
in
the
soule
turnes
the
eye
and
heart
of
the
soule
to
looke
unto
God
her
chiefe
happinesse
,
so
lust
turnes
about
the
eye
and
heart
of
the
soule
from
her
happinesse
;
and
what
can
her
prospect
and
object
be
then
but
misery
?
And
if
the
eye
of
the
soule
happen
to
cast
up
some
glances
to
heaven
and
happinesse
,
yet
the
heart
,
even
the
will
and
affections
are
hurried
away
by
this
lust
to
objects
and
workes
of
vanity
and
misery
;
so
that
the
soule
can
onely
say
,
I
see
the
better
things
,
and
follow
the
worse
;
I
see
happines
,
and
runne
after
misery
.
Thus
by
slavery
shee
buyeth
misery
,
and
slavery
it selfe
being
misery
,
by
misery
she
earneth
misery
.
And
indeed
is
it
not
the
true
misery
of
an
Egyptian
bondage
,
that
the
soule
should
bee
still
set
on
worke
by
lust
in
a
fiery
fornace
,
yea
be
beaten
and
tormented
when
shee
doth
not
worke
,
though
her
worke
concerne
her selfe
nothing
,
but
onely
to
strengthen
her
owne
bondage
,
and
to
increase
her
owne
misery
?
And
indeede
therefore
is
she
kept
so
hard
at
this
worke
,
that
she
may
haue
no
leisure
to
thinke
beyond
bondage
and
misery
.
Accordingly
if
the
soule
at
any
time
doe
but
lift
up
her
eyes
above
her
present
bondage
,
to
that
Lord
of
life
,
liberty
,
and
happinesse
,
which
would
once
have
married
her
,
and
still
makes
new
offers
unto
her
,
this
tyrannous
husband
like
a
Taske-master
,
strikes
in
deepe
lashes
into
her
side
,
and
tells
her
she
is
idle
,
though
she
thinkes
on
her
nearest
businesse
,
and
dearest
happinesse
.
If
it
be
in
the
morning
,
there
is
a
bargaine
of
profit
imposed
on
her
,
and
this
lot
of
bricke
must
be
made
that
day
,
and
about
it
must
the
soule
goe
,
being
pierced
throgh
with
the
thorns
of
covetousnesse
,
by
the
violent
hand
of
her
false
husband
,
that
she
may
have
no
leisure
,
respiration
or
rest
.
And
if
at
night
the
soule
be
weary
of
this
dayes
worke
,
and
would
faine
goe
to
bed
with
the
body
,
the
night
is
lusts
day
,
as
it
is
the
Owles
,
(
for
both
are
blinde
)
and
then
there
is
a
wife
whose
husband
is
from
home
,
and
the
poore
soule
being
a
spirit
must
crafficke
in
this
errand
for
the
flesh
,
to
make
a
wary
but
a
wicked
meeting
betweene
her
owne
lewd
husband
,
and
another
mans
wife
:
and
while
she
plots
it
,
she
doth
a
worke
of
slavery
,
and
when
she
hath
done
it
,
she
shall
have
no
other
but
the
wages
of
misery
But
endlesse
were
it
to
set
forth
the
whole
story
of
this
Aegyptian
bondage
:
Let
the
carnall
man
reade
over
the
story
of
his
owne
life
,
and
he
may
see
the
one
in
the
other
.
And
all
being
summed
together
amounts
to
this
;
that
the
marriage
betweene
the
soule
and
lust
is
monstrous
,
as
betweene
a
woman
and
a
beast
;
slavish
,
as
betweene
a
woman
and
a
tyrant
;
mischievous
and
mortall
,
as
betweene
a
woman
and
a
serpent
.
And
I
wish
all
this
were
sufficient
to
perswade
the
soule
to
give
consent
to
the
divorce
and
death
of
this
usurping
and
bloudy
husband
,
without
whose
death
there
can
be
no
marriage
betweene
her
&
happines
:
for
though
all
reason
and
right
doe
joyne
for
his
removal
,
yet
power
and
possession
,
and
union
worke
mightily
for
him
.
The
friends
of
the
Bridegroome
cry
aloud
,
Put
off
the
olde
man
corrupt
throgh
deceiuable
lusts
,
&
put
on
the
new
created
in
righteousnes
and
holines
.
And
,
If
ye
live
after
the
flesh
ye
shall
die
,
but
if
ye
mortifie
the
deedes
of
the
flesh
by
the
spirit
,
ye
shall
live
.
And
,
Abstaine
from
fleshly
lusts
which
fight
against
the
soule
.
And
when
the
soule
is
come
even
to
the
point
of
perswasion
,
even
then
will
lust
come
weeping
after
the
soule
,
like
the
false
husband
of
Michal
:
hee
will
raise
up
in
her
remembrance
the
images
of
grosse
and
filthy
pleasures
,
to
awake
the
old
unhappy
love
,
and
to
cause
a
cruell
and
unmercifull
pitty
.
For
a
cruell
pitty
it
is
,
when
the
soule
pitties
her
owne
murtherer
,
and
not
her
owne
murther
.
But
rather
put
on
a
mercifull
cruelty
,
being
mercifull
to
thy selfe
,
by
killing
him
that
would
kill
thee
.
It
is
better
he
should
endure
one
death
,
who
is
not
worthy
to
live
,
than
that
a
soule
should
be
ever
dying
,
which
should
live
for
ever
.
If
thou
kill
not
lust
now
,
hee
must
shortly
die
with
the
death
of
the
body
,
and
this
short
life
of
his
will
cost
thee
everlasting
death
:
but
if
thou
kill
him
presently
,
who
must
die
shortly
,
by
this
small
oddes
of
death
,
thou
preservest
to
thy selfe
everlasting
life
.
Wherefore
that
which
shall
shortly
be
necessary
,
make
it
presently
voluntary
,
and
so
shalt
thou
turne
necessity
,
into
a
sacrifice
,
(
even
a
freewill
offering
,
)
and
by
his
death
thou
shalt
change
thy
owne
death
into
life
eternall
.
And
know
that
they
are
but
false
teares
which
lust
doth
shed
,
and
his
cryes
are
lyes
:
for
there
is
no
such
happinesse
in
his
union
,
as
his
teares
would
tell
thee
,
but
thy
happines
is
then
most
,
when
thou
art
gotten
free
from
lust
;
even
when
lust
is
dead
,
and
the
soule
new
maried
to
her
Saviour
.
For
the
first
soule
was
happy
before
she
was
maried
to
lust
,
and
miserable
onely
after
that
accursed
mariage
.
To
bee
without
lust
is
a
true
Paradise
;
for
man
had
not
this
lust
when
hee
was
first
placed
in
Paradise
,
neither
could
Paradise
endure
man
,
when
this
lust
was
placed
in
him
.
Therefore
the
true
way
to
returne
to
Paradise
,
(
or
the
state
of
happines
,
wherof
it
was
a
type
)
is
to
put
off
this
lust
,
wherewith
began
our
misery
.
And
lust
being
put
off
from
the
soule
by
death
,
and
she
new
maried
to
the
Lord
of
life
,
then
will
she
say
that
she
was
never
happy
till
then
,
and
that
her
former
imaginary
happinesse
,
was
but
painted
and
glittering
misery
.
She
will
looke
on
dead
lust
as
on
a
loathsome
carkasse
;
and
shee
will
loath
the
remembrance
of
her
former
not
loves
but
adulteries
:
she
will
be
like
one
awaked
from
a
foolish
dreame
,
or
an
inchanted
love
,
and
shee
will
wonder
that
shee
hath
so
long
beene
bewitched
with
vanity
,
folly
,
sinne
and
misery
.
But
withall
in
her
new
mariage
,
having
tasted
how
sweete
her
Lord
is
,
shee
will
wonder
and
lament
,
that
shee
hath
so
long
lacked
this
sweetnesse
.
Excesse
of
joy
will
be
to
her
a
cause
of
sorrow
,
for
her
joy
is
now
so
great
,
that
she
is
sorry
shee
was
no
sooner
partaker
of
this
joy
.
And
in
this
joyfull
sorrow
shee
will
kisse
the
feete
of
her
Lord
,
and
weepe
on
them
while
she
kisseth
them
.
The
feete
of
her
Lord
are
now
more
precious
to
her
than
the
head
and
top
of
lust
;
for
therefore
she
kisseth
them
,
because
she
loveth
them
,
and
therefore
she
weepeth
,
because
she
hath
loved
lust
so
long
a
time
,
and
her
Lord
so
little
.
For
lust
that
once
falsly
appeared
to
her
as
her
greatest
joy
,
now
truly
appeares
to
her
as
her
greatest
sorrow
;
and
her
now
Lord
in
whom
before
she
tooke
no
delight
,
now
appeares
to
be
her
chiefest
and
truest
joy
:
And
both
these
her
teares
doe
tell
us
.
CAP.
III.
The
happinesse
of
the
soule
in
her
second
Marriage
.
NAbal
being
dead
,
David
marries
his
wife
:
lusts
name
is
Nabal
;
and
folly
is
with
him
;
and
folly
being
dead
,
the
Sonne
of
David
,
yea
the
Sonne
of
God
,
who
is
the
highest
wisdome
,
marriage
.
A
right
kindly
and
blessed
marriage
,
wherein
a
spirit
marries
with
a
spirit
,
a
derived
spirit
with
the
originall
and
and
roote
of
spirits
;
yea
with
a
spirit
that
hath
abundance
of
spirit
,
and
so
can
continually
refresh
and
nourish
her
with
a
new
supply
of
spirit
.
For
being
thus
fed
and
supplied
with
a
sap
of
her
owne
kinde
,
shee
growing
in
being
and
well-being
;
she
is
more
spirituall
by
receiving
more
juice
and
fatnesse
of
the
spirit
,
and
consequently
more
full
of
divine
light
,
beauty
,
love
,
vertue
,
power
,
life
,
joy
,
and
glory
.
Behold
the
highest
knot
of
blessednesse
on
earth
,
and
a
preparation
,
yea
a
pledge
of
the
highest
happinesse
in
heaven
.
And
though
this
inchoate
marriage
here
on
earth
compared
to
the
consummate
marriage
in
heaven
,
seeme
but
like
to
a
betrothing
,
yet
even
this
betrothing
compared
to
earthly
marriages
,
casts
a
shadow
of
darknesse
on
them
:
for
all
the
beauty
,
all
the
glory
,
all
the
joy
in
the
world
are
but
beames
,
&
rayes
,
&
flashes
of
this
King
of
glory
,
beauty
,
and
joy
.
By
him
were
all
things
made
that
were
made
,
and
therfore
the
goodnesse
of
the
things
that
are
made
by
him
,
must
be
borrowed
of
him
that
made
them
;
and
then
must
the
borrowed
goodnesse
needes
be
ashamed
,
to
be
compared
with
his
goodnesse
that
gave
or
lent
it
.
Christ
Iesus
is
all
lights
in
one
light
,
all
glories
in
one
glory
,
all
beauties
in
one
beauty
,
all
joyes
in
one
joy
.
When
he
gave
light
,
and
glory
,
and
beauty
,
and
joy
to
the
creature
,
he
left
the
roote
of
light
,
and
glory
,
and
beauty
,
and
joy
in
himselfe
.
So
did
he
leave
infinitely
more
in
himselfe
,
than
hee
gave
out
of
himselfe
;
for
an
internall
,
and
infinite
fountaine
,
hath
infinitely
more
in
it
,
than
all
the
streames
that
ever
issued
from
it
:
and
hee
is
a
fountaine
,
for
largenes
unlimited
,
and
for
spring
without
beginning
and
ending
.
The
dew
of
his
birth
is
of
the
wombe
of
the
morning
,
even
of
that
morning
which
hath
an
everlasting
rising
,
and
shall
be
free
from
setting
,
for
all
eternities
.
Thus
the
soule
being
united
to
him
,
is
united
to
an
eternall
roote
and
fountaine
of
blessednes
:
she
is
lightened
with
the
primitive
light
,
she
enjoyeth
the
primitive
beauty
,
she
is
adorned
with
the
primitive
glory
,
shee
tasteth
the
radicall
,
utmost
,
and
uppermost
sweetnesse
.
Being
made
one
with
him
who
is
God
,
she
hath
the
taste
of
God
,
and
God
being
tasted
,
overfloweth
,
and
steepeth
,
and
drencheth
the
soule
with
overcomming
and
inebriating
sweetnesse
.
For
a
high
,
and
large
,
and
mighty
joy
,
poured
into
a
low
,
and
measured
,
and
weake
spirit
,
overcommeth
her
with
quantity
,
and
quality
,
and
so
carries
her
away
into
extasie
and
ravishment
:
she
is
too
narrow
and
feeble
to
containe
and
beare
a
joy
that
is
too
large
and
strong
for
her
;
and
therefore
having
filled
her
to
the
utmost
capacity
,
it
goes
beyond
,
and
runnes
over
.
So
is
she
blessed
in
that
fulnesse
which
her
measure
containeth
,
yea
she
is
more
than
blessed
,
even
blessed
in
a
kinde
of
excesse
,
by
being
overcome
and
overflowed
with
blessednesse
.
And
if
we
will
consider
the
quality
of
this
joy
as
well
as
the
quantity
,
there
is
no
joy
to
the
spirituall
joy
,
the
joyes
of
the
body
being
base
in
comparison
of
it
;
the
spirituall
joy
is
pure
,
piercing
,
and
full
of
activity
,
the
joy
of
bodies
is
grosse
,
heavie
,
dull
,
and
earthy
.
In
the
bodily
wine
it
is
the
spirit
of
the
wine
,
that
rejoyceth
the
spirits
of
the
body
.
But
a
wine
that
is
all
spirit
,
and
spirit
in
the
height
and
top
of
spiritualnes
,
and
newly
drawne
and
sucked
from
the
prime
and
chiefest
spirit
,
how
doth
that
rejoyce
,
how
doth
that
ravish
the
spirits
that
drinke
it
?
when
mans
highest
part
doth
tast
the
highest
good
.
Man
hath
no
higher
part
whereby
to
taste
and
receive
happinesse
,
neither
is
there
any
higher
happinesse
to
be
tasted
and
received
.
Therefore
the
soule
that
tasteth
this
wine
at
her
spirituall
marriage
,
saith
as
the
Master
of
the
Feast
at
the
earthly
marriage
;
Lord
,
Thou
hast
kept
the
best
wine
untill
the
last
.
And
this
being
best
,
the
soule
gives
it
the
best
place
in
her
judgement
and
affection
;
she
forgets
that
which
is
behinde
,
and
indeavours
to
that
which
is
before
,
she
will
not
rest
in
the
low
and
backward
joyes
of
the
bodie
,
but
strives
toward
the
high
and
forward
joyes
of
the
spirit
:
and
having
attained
them
,
she
rests
in
them
,
as
in
the
best
joyes
,
yet
so
rests
in
them
,
in
this
life
of
growth
,
that
she
desires
to
grow
by
them
presently
to
a
greater
capacity
of
them
,
and
finally
to
a
full
,
large
,
and
everlasting
fruition
of
them
,
in
a
nearer
accesse
unto
the
very
spring
and
fountaine
of
joyes
.
But
when
all
is
said
of
this
marriage-happinesse
,
one
taste
of
it
wil
tell
thee
more
,
than
all
that
is
or
can
be
said
.
The
true
knowledge
of
the
sweetnes
of
God
is
gotten
by
tasting
,
and
therefore
taste
first
,
and
then
see
how
sweet
and
gracious
the
Lord
is
.
The
taste
of
it
will
truly
tell
him
that
tasteth
it
,
how
sweet
it
is
;
but
hee
that
knoweth
this
sweetnes
by
tasting
,
cannot
deliver
over
the
full
and
perfect
image
of
this
sweetnes
to
him
that
hath
not
tasted
it
.
For
this
sweetnes
surmounts
all
knowne
sweetnesse
of
the
creatures
,
and
by
that
which
is
knowne
must
that
which
is
unknowne
be
made
knowne
.
But
if
that
which
is
knowne
be
lesse
and
lower
than
that
which
is
unknown
,
that
which
is
knowne
may
teach
and
tell
us
what
the
unknowne
is
not
,
but
not
what
it
is
.
So
the
joy
of
love
and
union
in
an
earthly
marriage
,
cannot
expresse
a
heavenly
joy
that
is
spiritually
pure
,
and
purely
active
.
Only
these
and
the
like
comparisons
may
serve
for
staires
,
whereby
to
ascend
,
even
above
these
comparisons
,
and
to
set
our
foot
on
something
beyond
them
.
For
if
the
soule
rests
on
these
,
she
rests
short
of
the
knowledge
of
the
sweetnesse
which
is
beyond
these
;
shee
is
still
in
the
sweetnesse
of
the
creature
,
and
hath
not
attained
the
sweetnesse
of
the
Creatour
.
Therefore
when
she
hath
gone
as
farre
as
she
may
in
the
sweetnesse
of
the
creature
,
let
her
advance
one
step
more
into
that
spirituall
union
,
wherein
is
to
be
tasted
,
and
seene
by
tasting
,
the
sweetnes
of
the
Creatour
;
and
ther
shall
shee
see
more
by
tasting
,
than
all
the
creatures
could
shew
her
by
resembling
:
she
hath
met
with
that
joy
,
which
onely
can
truly
teach
it selfe
,
If
a
man
would
give
all
the
substance
of
his
house
for
loue
,
it
would
utterly
bee
contemned
.
And
indeed
the
spouse
having
Christs
love
,
she
hath
that
which
is
better
than
all
things
;
and
having
Christ
with
his
love
,
how
can
she
with
him
but
have
all
things
also
?
Thus
happy
,
and
thus
growing
in
happinesse
,
shee
walkes
on
in
this
life
of
marriage
inchoate
,
untill
she
come
to
the
eternall
life
of
marriage
consummate
.
She
is
happy
now
in
her
union
with
happinesse
,
and
she
shall
be
happy
hereafter
in
a
full
fruition
of
happinesse
.
She
is
happy
now
in
the
earnests
and
peeces
of
that
happinesse
which
shall
be
full
hereafter
;
yea
daily
more
and
more
happy
here
,
by
a
daily
enlarging
of
those
earnests
and
peeces
:
and
shee
shall
be
the
more
happy
hereafter
,
by
how
much
more
these
earnests
and
peeces
of
happinesse
have
beene
here
enlarged
.
And
thus
shall
she
walke
by
happines
unto
happines
,
and
by
the
increase
of
happines
to
the
increase
of
happines
,
since
the
more
happy
shee
is
in
time
,
the
greater
shall
her
happinesse
be
in
eternity
.
CAP.
IIII.
The
heavenly
marriage
is
happy
not
onely
in
the
pleasures
,
but
in
the
labours
of
love
.
A
WISE
husband
though
most
loving
,
is
not
alwayes
embracing
:
hee
doth
love
ever
,
but
doth
not
ever
embrace
:
For
there
is
a
time
to
embrace
,
Rebekah
,
so
wee
reade
also
that
she
made
savoury
meat
such
as
her
husband
loved
.
No
doubt
she
had
pleased
him
before
by
the
like
service
,
that
she
pleased
him
so
certainly
now
;
at
least
she
was
no
better
than
Sarah
,
who
did
her
husband
the
service
of
making
cakes
for
the
entertainment
of
his
guests
.
So
doth
the
mysticall
wife
also
,
she
thinkes
sometimes
how
she
may
please
her
husband
by
service
,
and
not
onely
how
she
may
take
pleasure
in
him
,
and
of
him
.
For
the
soules
husband
will
not
onely
please
,
but
be
pleased
;
hee
will
not
onely
give
love
,
but
take
it
,
and
the
love
which
he
takes
,
shall
be
sometimes
in
the
labours
of
love
.
Hee
is
her
Lord
,
and
therfore
he
expects
service
from
her
,
that
shee
may
not
call
him
Lord
in
words
onely
,
but
in
deedes
,
even
in
doing
his
will
.
Neither
is
this
service
,
a
meere
service
,
or
a
thing
onely
of
toyle
and
trouble
;
but
it
is
an
easie
yoake
,
and
a
light
burthen
:
For
the
soule
hath
many
gaines
annexed
to
her
worke
,
she
gaines
before
she
workes
,
she
gaines
in
her
worke
,
and
she
gaines
after
her
worke
:
She
gaines
before
the
worke
;
for
this
is
one
maine
cause
,
why
those
weighty
joyes
,
sweete
embracements
,
and
ravishing
consolations
are
given
her
,
that
she
may
cheerfully
runne
the
race
,
and
performe
the
service
set
before
her
.
When
Angels
bring
meate
to
Elijah
,
it
is
because
hee
hath
a
great
journey
to
goe
;
so
that
he
is
beholding
to
his
great
journey
for
his
Angels
foode
.
The
outward
Israel
is
fed
with
the
bread
of
heaven
,
to
maintaine
him
in
his
walke
unto
Canaan
,
and
the
inward
Israel
is
fed
with
the
true
bread
that
commeth
downe
from
heaven
,
to
enable
him
in
his
workes
,
and
walkes
through
this
pilgrimage
to
heaven
.
Neither
doth
this
course
holde
onely
in
the
service
of
doing
,
but
in
the
service
of
suffering
;
in
the
passive
,
as
in
the
active
obedience
.
Christ
Iesus
shews
his
Disciples
on
the
Mount
a
patterne
of
his
heavenly
glory
,
and
then
to
Christ
thus
gloriously
transfigured
,
Moses
and
Elias
doe
speake
of
the
suffering
which
hee
should
accomplish
at
Ierusalem
.
So
to
the
Head
himselfe
,
the
glory
set
before
him
is
an
encouragement
to
the
enduring
of
the
Crosse
,
that
they
are
strengthened
with
all
might
,
according
to
Gods
glorious
power
,
so
they
know
the
end
for
which
they
are
thus
strengthened
,
even
unto
all
patience
and
long-suffering
with
joyfulnesse
.
Yet
neither
is
all
the
comfort
,
encouragement
,
and
gaine
given
to
the
soule
before
her
worke
,
but
even
in
her
worke
she
gaineth
.
In
the
service
of
her
husband
is
continuall
gain
,
and
that
not
of
strength
onely
,
but
of
pleasure
and
delight
.
For
the
soule
having
tasted
Christ
in
an
heavenly
communion
,
so
loves
him
,
that
to
please
him
is
a
pleasure
and
delight
to
her selfe
:
Yea
there
is
such
a
law
of
love
shed
into
her
by
that
communion
,
that
his
commandements
are
so
farre
from
being
grievous
to
her
,
that
there
is
no
pleasure
in
her
taste
comparable
to
them
.
No
sweet
things
,
no
precious
things
in
her
judgement
may
be
compared
to
the
sweetnes
and
preciousnes
of
commandements
.
Therefore
it
is
the
true
voice
of
the
Spouse
,
and
therein
not
so
much
her
mouth
as
heart
speaketh
,
They
are
more
to
be
desired
than
gold
,
yea
than
much
fine
golde
,
sweeter
also
than
hony
,
and
the
hony
combe
.
Behold
how
the
soule
married
unto
Christ
delights
in
the
law
of
her
husband
;
and
no
wonder
if
she
love
his
law
,
when
she
loves
him
;
neither
if
her
heart
be
to
his
law
,
when
his
law
is
written
in
her
heart
.
Besides
,
the
law
of
his
lips
is
a
law
of
grace
,
and
a
law
of
grace
is
a
lovely
law
.
So
she
loves
his
law
,
because
his
law
is
lovely
;
she
loves
it
because
it
is
his
law
whom
she
loves
;
she
loves
it
because
the
love
of
his
law
is
written
in
her
heart
.
And
as
she
loves
his
law
,
so
she
loves
to
fulfill
it
;
for
her
love
will
not
be
quiet
,
untill
it
see
her
words
turned
into
her
deedes
.
And
this
she
doth
not
negligently
,
nor
heavily
,
but
like
a
lover
,
pleasantly
and
chearfully
.
Looke
but
to
a
carnall
lover
,
and
see
how
he
affects
the
title
of
a
servant
,
and
is
more
than
glad
,
(
even
proud
)
to
receive
and
fulfill
the
commands
of
his
beloved
.
Give
then
spiritual
love
to
a
soule
,
and
she
will
rejoyce
also
to
perform
the
spiritual
commands
of
her
beloved
.
If
a
man
know
not
this
,
it
is
because
hee
loves
not
,
but
let
him
love
,
and
then
he
will
both
know
and
doe
it
.
For
the
nature
,
and
law
of
love
in
the
lover
,
naturally
moveth
to
the
fulfilling
of
the
law
of
the
beloved
.
And
as
the
Sun
in
whom
a
law
or
covenant
of
motion
is
written
,
rejoyceth
like
a
gyant
to
runne
the
race
and
motion
of
that
covenant
,
so
the
soule
in
whom
this
law
of
love
is
written
,
And
as
this
law
of
love
is
active
,
and
laborious
,
so
is
it
strong
and
mighty
.
Even
death
it selfe
cannot
overcome
love
,
O
King
we
are
not
carefull
to
answer
thee
in
this
matter
,
but
bee
it
knowne
to
thee
,
wee
will
not
serve
thy
gods
,
nor
worship
thy
golden
image
.
And
another
while
,
at
other
threats
,
We
cannot
but
speake
the
things
that
wee
have
seene
and
heard
.
And
again
,
when
danger
was
denounced
,
and
friends
disswaded
:
I
am
ready
not
to
be
bound
onely
,
but
also
to
die
for
the
name
of
the
Lord
Iesus
.
Thus
may
bee
seene
,
not
onely
what
pleasures
,
but
what
power
and
might
doe
accompany
and
blesse
the
labours
and
sufferings
of
love
:
love
delights
in
doing
and
suffering
;
yea
it
is
angry
when
it
may
not
be
suffered
to
suffer
:
And
as
opposition
riseth
against
it
,
so
it
riseth
against
opposition
,
yea
it
riseth
by
it
,
untill
it
rise
above
it
.
But
besides
the
usuall
pleasure
which
love
takes
in
suffering
for
the
beloved
,
there
are
unusuall
and
extraordinary
comforts
allotted
to
the
sufferings
of
love
.
When
the
Bride
suffereth
most
for
her
love
to
the
Bridegroome
,
the
Bridegroomes
love
must
needes
be
most
increased
to
the
Bride
;
and
consequently
the
fruits
&
benefits
of
his
love
.
Therefore
there
being
an
hundred-fold
gaine
promised
in
this
life
to
the
sufferings
of
love
,
As
the
tribulations
doe
abound
,
so
doe
the
consolations
.
Thus
is
there
continuall
gaine
in
the
sufferings
of
love
,
and
great
gaine
in
great
sufferings
;
thus
is
the
soule
made
a
conquerour
and
gainer
in
all
labours
,
and
losses
,
and
crosses
,
through
him
that
loveth
her
.
What
she
loseth
in
the
creature
,
she
hath
repayed
with
great
advantage
in
the
Creatour
:
what
she
loseth
in
brasse
,
she
hath
repayed
in
golde
,
not
barely
value
for
value
,
but
weight
for
weight
:
yea
the
weight
of
the
worse
is
farre
exceeded
by
the
weight
of
the
better
;
Lastly
,
the
soule
is
a
great
gainer
after
the
worke
;
for
the
greatest
gaine
of
the
soule
is
at
the
end
of
all
her
labours
:
there
is
a
time
comming
when
shee
shall
rest
from
her
labours
;
Vpon
the
consideration
of
these
threefold
gaines
annexed
to
the
labours
and
sufferings
of
love
,
here
ariseth
a
just
reproofe
of
those
contemplative
men
,
who
by
neglecting
or
rather
excluding
these
labours
and
sufferings
,
doe
neglect
,
&
shut
out
these
gaines
.
They
would
presently
be
at
rest
,
and
presently
would
have
nothing
but
rest
and
enjoying
;
but
it
is
utterly
a
fault
and
a
losse
to
separate
mystical
Divinity
from
practicall
,
for
howsoever
they
may
be
distinguished
,
they
may
not
be
separated
;
each
having
his
turnes
,
and
each
giving
hand
to
other
,
and
strengthening
one
another
.
The
joy
of
the
Lord
is
our
strength
,
and
it
strengthens
us
for
something
to
bee
done
or
suffered
,
and
again
these
labours
and
sufferings
doe
increase
the
joy
,
for
as
the
tribulations
doe
increase
,
so
doe
the
consolations
.
True
it
is
that
the
minde
of
man
would
presently
bee
at
his
workes
end
,
and
having
received
joyes
,
spend
the
whole
time
in
gazing
on
them
,
tasting
of
them
,
or
in
recalling
the
tastes
and
images
of
them
:
But
too
much
enjoying
is
a
losse
of
enjoying
;
for
it
looseth
all
those
gaines
(
formerly
mentioned
)
annexed
to
doing
and
sufferings
.
For
if
a
man
will
onely
busie
himselfe
in
tasting
present
joy
,
how
can
he
expect
those
joyes
that
are
sent
to
prepare
unto
labours
?
or
those
that
accompany
labours
?
or
finally
,
(
which
is
of
most
weight
)
those
infinite
,
and
unmeasurable
,
and
exceeding
joyes
,
which
in
the
life
to
come
are
to
follow
afflictions
and
labours
?
Will
God
give
joy
to
enable
us
unto
services
,
when
he
seeth
hee
cannot
have
the
services
for
which
hee
gave
the
joyes
?
Can
we
looke
for
an
abundance
of
consolations
,
when
we
exclude
the
abundance
of
tribulations
to
which
these
consolations
are
annexed
?
Or
can
wee
looke
for
that
exceeding
weight
of
glory
,
which
shal
follow
light
and
momentany
afflictions
,
and
yet
utterly
refuse
that
light
affliction
which
worketh
this
glory
?
Surely
whosoever
thou
art
that
thus
doest
,
thy
losse
hereby
is
manifold
,
but
especially
greatest
in
turning
thy
seed-time
into
harvest
,
and
in
eating
up
thy
seede
:
thou
makest
the
time
of
sowing
to
be
the
time
of
reaping
;
yea
thou
eatest
up
thy
seede
,
which
being
sowne
,
would
have
given
thee
an
ensuing
harvest
.
True
it
is
that
ioyes
are
given
thee
here
,
and
they
are
given
thee
to
be
enjoyed
;
but
even
this
enjoying
is
but
a
sowing
;
for
thereby
are
sowne
in
thee
new
supplies
of
faith
,
hope
,
and
love
,
and
of
all
spirituall
strength
,
even
the
seeds
of
future
active
and
passive
services
.
Thou
art
by
these
joyes
mightily
encouraged
,
fortified
,
and
enabled
to
an
unwearied
industry
in
the
labours
of
the
Lord
,
since
by
this
which
is
paid
thee
in
hand
,
thou
seest
,
and
feelest
,
and
tastest
,
that
thy
labour
is
not
in
vain
in
the
Lord
.
Thou
doest
not
receive
thy
earnest-penny
to
bee
still
gazing
on
it
,
much
lesse
to
bound
thy
thoughts
with
it
,
or
to
thinke
thy selfe
rich
enough
in
it
,
but
thereby
to
be
drawne
on
to
a
chearful
running
in
the
race
,
that
leadeth
to
the
infinite
treasure
which
is
in
heaven
,
whereof
this
penny
is
an
earnest
.
Wherefore
if
any
man
will
set
up
his
rest
in
present
joyes
,
and
speake
of
building
Tabernacles
in
them
,
let
him
know
what
was
said
of
him
that
said
so
,
and
see
whether
the
same
agrees
not
also
to
another
that
saith
the
same
agrees
not
also
to
another
that
saith
the
same
,
Hee
wist
not
what
he
said
.
Elias
,
let
us
walke
with
Elias
,
having
taken
the
earnest
,
let
us
doe
the
worke
,
having
eaten
Manna
,
let
us
walk
on
to
Canaan
.
Let
us
not
grow
restive
by
that
which
was
given
to
make
us
active
;
neither
let
us
looke
to
tie
these
joyes
together
in
this
life
of
action
;
which
are
therefore
intermitted
,
that
there
may
be
times
for
action
,
as
well
as
for
enjoying
.
Therefore
if
Iesus
doe
sometimes
vanish
out
of
sight
,
and
withdraw
himselfe
into
heaven
,
imagine
you
heard
the
Angel
saying
unto
you
,
Why
stand
ye
gazing
into
heaven
?
The
same
Iesus
which
is
taken
up
from
you
into
heaven
,
shall
so
come
as
yee
have
seene
him
goe
into
heaven
.
He
hath
times
of
going
,
and
times
of
returning
.
He
hath
visited
thee
,
and
is
gone
out
of
sight
,
expecting
the
fruite
of
his
former
visitation
.
As
thou
hast
seene
him
going
,
so
thou
shalt
see
him
comming
;
when
thy
worke
is
well
done
,
hee
will
come
and
comfort
,
and
encourage
thee
to
the
worke
that
is
to
bee
done
.
But
still
remember
that
his
best
comming
is
his
last
comming
:
then
will
hee
come
to
thee
,
and
cause
thee
to
come
to
him
,
and
this
comming
together
shall
be
without
any
more
going
asunder
.
Then
shalt
thou
rest
,
and
onely
rest
,
for
even
thy
actions
which
now
are
labours
shall
then
be
rest
.
And
then
shall
it
be
no
griefe
of
heart
to
thee
,
that
thou
hast
had
here
interpositions
of
labours
betweene
thy
rests
,
since
these
labours
here
shall
there
be
turned
into
the
joyes
of
a
rest
eternall
.
Neither
shall
it
be
a
griefe
of
heart
to
thee
then
,
that
thou
hast
had
some
abatements
here
of
a
temporall
rest
,
when
those
abatements
have
beene
occasions
of
increased
degrees
in
a
rest
and
glory
everlasting
.
Thou
shalt
have
thy
joyes
increased
according
to
the
increase
of
thy
labours
,
for
thy
works
shall
follow
thee
;
and
if
they
follow
thee
in
abundance
,
they
shal
bee
followed
with
abundance
of
joyes
.
If
thy
labours
have
made
thy
five
talents
to
bee
ten
,
thy
Lord
shall
make
thee
Ruler
over
ten
Cities
:
and
then
shalt
thou
finde
it
best
to
enjoy
most
in
the
place
of
most
enjoying
.
And
surely
that
must
needs
be
the
place
of
most
,
and
best
enjoying
,
where
both
soule
and
body
are
enlarged
and
clarified
to
the
greatest
capacity
of
enjoying
;
and
where
this
greatest
capacity
doth
meete
with
the
greatest
perfection
,
and
fulnesse
of
joy
.
And
this
fulnesse
of
joy
is
at
that
right
hand
,
where
the
Bridegroome
sitteth
preparing
a
place
for
his
Bride
:
And
into
that
place
of
fulnesse
of
joy
shall
this
husband
receive
his
wife
,
having
passed
through
the
labours
and
sufferings
of
love
,
and
there
they
shall
be
changed
to
her
into
large
,
full
and
everlasting
joyes
.
CAP.
V.
The
Spouses
estate
in
desertions
though
seemingly
miserable
,
is
indeede
profitable
.
THE
Spouse
of
Christ
is
now
willing
to
labour
,
and
to
suffer
for
her
husband
,
yea
contented
that
sometimes
joyes
be
intermitted
for
labours
and
sufferings
,
which
hereafter
shall
be
exchanged
into
full
and
eternall
joyes
:
But
this
she
is
both
willing
and
able
to
doe
through
her
Christ
that
strengthens
her
,
and
she
is
contented
to
doe
it
,
so
that
he
be
ever
with
her
,
thogh
not
stil
smiling
and
embracing
,
yet
still
supporting
and
strengthening
her
:
But
shee
heares
,
and
shee
sayes
she
feeles
,
that
sometimes
hee
withdrawes
himselfe
,
and
then
her
heart
is
full
of
woe
,
Woe
to
her
that
is
alone
.
She
hath
left
all
things
for
him
,
for
that
shee
knew
to
bee
the
price
of
him
,
and
she
thought
him
well
worth
it
;
but
now
he
for
whom
she
hath
left
all
things
,
hath
left
her
,
and
so
she
is
left
of
him
and
all
things
.
Yea
he
seemes
not
onely
to
leave
her
,
but
to
send
terrours
to
her
,
even
terrours
without
and
terrours
within
.
Within
,
the
remnants
of
the
olde
husband
stirre
up
the
loathed
images
of
the
olde
,
not
love
,
but
lust
;
and
though
the
head
of
this
serpent
be
broken
,
yet
the
end
of
it
will
still
be
moving
.
And
while
she
sees
nothing
but
these
ugly
shapes
in
the
dark
night
of
desertions
,
she
is
affrighted
at
them
,
and
at
her
owne
estate
,
for
now
she
thinkes
this
to
be
her
true
and
onely
estate
,
because
she
sees
no
other
but
this
.
And
without
the
old
enemy
of
soules
,
and
the
first
cursed
marriage-maker
betweene
the
soule
and
sinne
,
renewes
his
olde
businesse
,
and
would
yet
againe
make
a
bad
match
betweene
the
dying
olde
man
,
and
a
living
soule
.
And
when
hee
cannot
bring
the
soule
to
consent
,
he
will
will
perswade
her
that
she
hath
consented
,
and
strive
to
make
her
beleeve
that
shee
hath
done
it
,
even
because
he
cannot
prevaile
to
make
her
to
doe
it
.
He
would
have
had
her
to
perish
by
giving
her
consent
to
sinne
,
and
seeing
he
cannot
doe
that
,
he
will
strive
to
destroy
her
,
by
this
desperate
thought
,
that
she
is
nothing
but
sin
,
and
nothing
else
shall
be
,
seeing
she
is
forsaken
of
him
,
who
onely
takes
away
both
the
guilt
and
reigne
of
sin
.
And
thus
being
filled
with
bitternesse
,
if
she
looke
out
to
men
for
comfort
,
there
she
finds
many
miserable
comforters
that
wound
and
smite
her
,
and
if
shee
meete
with
that
one
of
a
thousand
,
that
speakes
right
words
,
and
tells
her
true
comforts
,
yet
while
the
inward
Comforter
is
wanting
that
should
turne
the
words
into
deedes
,
they
remaine
bare
words
,
Call
mee
not
Naomi
,
but
Marah
:
for
my
Lord
hath
dealt
bitterly
with
me
.
Yet
still
she
lookes
out
for
her
husband
,
but
sees
him
not
:
shee
calls
to
remembrance
his
former
loves
,
that
so
shee
may
enjoy
him
in
the
representations
of
her
former
enjoyings
.
But
then
a
world
of
fleshly
and
fearefull
thoughts
rush
in
upon
her
,
and
with
a
cloud
cover
that
sight
of
him
which
memorie
would
give
her
:
and
if
she
yeeld
not
to
them
,
she
is
vexed
with
importunity
;
and
if
she
yeeld
to
them
,
she
is
vex't
with
guilt
&
self-accusation
:
the
Tempter
buffets
her
with
sharp
and
thornie
temptations
,
to
drive
her
to
yeeld
;
and
when
shee
yeelds
,
hee
buffets
her
with
fearful
accusations
.
Now
what
can
bee
added
to
her
misery
?
Her
best
friend
is
gone
from
her
,
and
her
worst
enemies
are
round
about
her
;
yea
her
best
friends
seemes
to
have
surrendred
her
into
the
hands
of
her
worst
enemies
;
for
shee
feeles
a
mighty
force
of
her
enemies
,
but
no
strength
of
her
beloved
.
Therefore
her
heart
failes
her
,
and
shee
thinkes
that
shee
hath
wholly
lost
both
her selfe
and
him
.
I
opened
(
saith
she
)
to
my
beloved
,
but
my
beloved
had
withdrawne
himselfe
and
was
gone
;
I
sought
but
I
could
not
finde
him
,
I
called
him
,
but
hee
gave
no
answer
.
The
watchmen
that
went
about
the
City
,
found
me
,
they
smote
me
,
they
wounded
me
.
But
yet
be
of
good
comfort
,
thou
wearie
,
wounded
,
and
distressed
soule
:
thy
husband
is
a
God
that
comforteth
the
abject
,
that
makes
light
to
shine
out
of
darknesse
,
that
gives
refreshing
to
the
weary
and
heavie-laden
,
that
brings
life
out
of
death
.
Thy
Lord
hath
called
thee
as
a
woman
forsaken
,
This
is
so
true
,
that
many
of
these
uses
and
advantages
may
particularly
be
named
;
and
I
doubt
not
but
thy
husband
himselfe
will
teach
them
to
thee
experimentally
;
yet
because
while
the
cloud
of
desertion
is
upon
thy
soule
,
she
can
hardly
see
by
her
owne
light
,
another
that
hath
light
for
the
time
,
(
though
perchance
clouded
himselfe
as
much
or
more
another
time
)
may
tell
her
what
hee
sees
by
his
light
.
And
indeede
when
the
soule
is
in
the
darke
,
and
her
owne
light
shines
not
,
she
may
doe
well
to
get
a
guide
,
and
to
take
heede
to
borrowed
light
,
untill
the
day
dawne
,
and
the
day-starre
arise
in
her
owne
heart
.
A
first
advantage
then
,
that
may
come
to
the
soule
by
the
desertions
of
her
husband
,
is
by
desertions
to
prevent
desertions
:
for
by
loosing
him
shee
may
learne
not
to
loose
him
,
and
by
the
miseries
of
her
former
ill
keeping
him
,
learne
hereafter
to
keepe
him
better
.
Perchance
thou
wast
too
careles
in
holding
him
when
thou
hadst
him
,
or
in
admitting
him
when
he
came
to
visite
thee
,
and
to
bring
these
thy
faults
to
remembrance
,
that
by
remembring
them
thou
maist
amend
them
,
he
is
now
gone
from
thee
.
Remember
whether
thou
didst
not
heare
such
a
voice
as
this
;
Open
to
me
my
sister
,
my
love
,
my
dove
,
my
undefiled
;
for
my
head
is
filled
with
deaw
,
and
my
lockes
with
the
drops
of
the
night
.
Remember
also
whether
this
was
not
thy
answer
:
I
have
put
off
my
coate
,
how
shall
I
put
it
on
?
I
have
washed
my
feete
,
how
shall
I
defile
them
?
Thou
hadst
taken
up
some
rest
in
the
flesh
,
and
hadst
put
thy selfe
into
a
method
of
ease
,
and
then
it
was
a
marring
of
thy
method
,
and
a
fowling
of
thy
feete
,
to
step
into
any
action
or
passion
for
thy
beloved
.
Hee
that
was
thy
true
happinesse
,
was
growne
very
cheape
to
thee
,
and
thou
wast
content
to
part
from
him
rather
than
to
give
the
price
of
a
little
paines
for
him
:
And
art
thou
not
well
worthy
to
lose
him
,
whom
thou
thoughtest
so
little
worth
the
keeping
?
But
now
thou
art
put
to
learne
the
value
of
him
by
absence
,
whom
thou
didst
so
much
undervalue
being
present
.
And
when
by
absence
thou
hast
learned
this
lesson
,
thou
hast
gained
more
by
absence
,
than
thou
wouldest
have
done
by
presence
;
for
thou
hast
gained
the
true
valuation
of
thy
Lord
by
absence
,
which
through
thy
fault
and
frailty
thou
forgatest
in
his
presence
:
&
so
by
this
first
gaine
thou
shalt
come
to
a
second
;
for
by
absence
thou
shalt
gaine
his
presence
.
For
absence
having
taught
thee
truly
to
value
him
,
and
accordingly
to
desire
and
thirst
after
him
,
and
to
give
him
due
entertainment
,
when
he
comes
hereafter
and
offers
his
love
unto
thee
;
then
shalt
thou
by
this
benefit
of
absence
,
come
to
enjoy
his
presence
.
Thy
fulnesse
brought
thee
to
hunger
,
and
thy
hunger
now
brings
thee
to
fulnesse
;
for
he
filleth
the
hungry
with
good
things
,
and
the
full
he
sends
empty
away
.
He
will
fill
thee
not
onely
with
good
things
,
but
with
goodnesse
it selfe
;
for
he
wil
fill
thee
with
himselfe
,
and
hee
is
goodnes
:
yea
thou
shalt
yet
have
a
farther
gaine
by
this
absence
,
for
when
he
comes
againe
,
thou
wilt
holde
him
faster
,
and
keepe
him
surer
,
and
so
enjoy
him
nearer
&
longer
.
Now
thou
wilt
embrace
him
,
and
cleave
to
him
,
and
winde
thy selfe
about
him
,
and
when
thine
eye
sleepeth
,
thy
heart
shall
wake
,
that
thou
maist
still
keepe
his
presence
,
whose
absence
was
so
bitter
unto
thee
.
Thou
wilt
bring
him
into
the
chamber
of
the
soule
,
and
binde
him
with
the
cords
of
love
,
thou
wilt
claspe
thy
affections
about
him
,
and
hold
him
fast
that
hee
may
no
more
escape
from
thee
:
And
being
thus
bound
by
the
cords
of
love
,
and
love
loving
to
be
bound
by
love
,
hee
willingly
abides
in
the
bands
which
hee
loveth
:
for
both
love
and
faith
are
mighty
with
the
Almighty
,
and
make
the
spouse
an
Israel
,
even
a
prevailer
with
God
.
Why
trouble
yee
the
woman
?
But
secondly
,
there
is
yet
a
farther
use
and
benefit
of
desertions
.
For
it
may
be
thou
hast
gone
beyond
neglect
of
thy
beloved
,
and
hast
proceeded
unto
some
offensive
,
crosse
and
contrary
carriage
toward
him
;
thou
hast
entertained
some
thought
,
purpose
or
act
,
which
hee
cannot
endure
,
and
then
it
is
best
both
for
him
and
thee
,
that
he
hide
himselfe
from
thee
.
If
thou
come
once
to
entertaine
his
enemies
,
and
to
lodge
them
in
one
roome
with
him
,
how
canst
thou
expect
but
that
hee
should
leave
that
roome
,
since
there
is
no
agreement
betweene
light
and
darknesse
,
betweene
Christ
and
Belial
?
And
surely
hee
should
neither
regard
himselfe
,
nor
thee
,
if
hee
should
give
thee
his
loves
,
when
thou
entertainest
his
enemies
.
For
since
thy
husband
is
thy
happinesse
,
the
enemies
of
thy
husband
are
the
enemies
of
thy
happinesse
,
and
so
both
his
and
thine
enemies
.
Therefore
is
it
good
that
thy
friend
should
a
while
goe
aside
,
when
that
thou
grievest
him
,
and
hurtest
thy selfe
by
the
entertainment
of
his
and
thine
enemies
.
And
while
thus
hee
is
hid
from
thee
,
and
thou
art
left
to
those
enemies
whom
thou
hast
entertained
in
stead
of
him
,
thou
maist
learne
what
odds
there
is
betweene
a
friend
and
an
enemy
;
and
what
a
folly
it
was
to
grieve
him
that
loved
thee
,
by
loving
them
that
hate
thee
.
Thou
hast
perchance
had
a
touch
with
thy
olde
husband
the
flesh
,
and
jealousie
,
(
which
is
the
rage
of
a
man
,
Sampson
,
when
his
lockes
were
cut
off
,
the
good
Spirit
leaves
thee
,
and
the
evill
Spirits
like
Philistims
are
upon
thee
.
But
hath
God
forgotten
to
be
mercifull
?
and
hath
he
shut
up
his
tender
mercies
in
an
everlasting
displeasure
?
Will
hee
breake
the
bruised
reede
,
and
deliver
up
the
soule
of
his
Turtle
into
the
hands
of
her
enemies
?
Nay
,
wee
shall
not
die
O
Lord
;
Thou
hast
ordained
them
for
judgement
,
and
O
mighty
God
thou
hast
established
them
for
correction
.
The
enemies
of
the
soule
are
suffered
to
scourge
her
for
loving
her
enemies
;
so
to
beate
that
love
out
of
her
,
and
to
beate
her
into
that
olde
love
from
which
in
some
great
degree
shee
was
fallen
.
Thus
is
she
beaten
by
her
enemies
from
her
enemies
,
and
the
stripes
sent
her
from
her
friend
,
bring
her
backe
to
him
that
sent
them
.
Shee
had
grieved
the
spirit
of
her
beloved
,
and
by
the
griefe
of
her
owne
spirit
shee
now
learnes
what
the
griefe
of
a
grieved
spirit
is
,
and
thereby
learnes
to
grieve
him
no
more
.
Hereupon
she
resolves
to
cast
out
whatsoever
hath
offended
him
,
and
to
put
on
that
singlenes
and
purity
of
soule
,
which
makes
her
one
for
one
,
and
one
fitted
by
holinesse
for
that
one
who
is
holy
.
She
will
be
his
alone
,
whose
alone
she
is
,
and
from
henceforth
shee
will
scorne
and
hate
any
sinne
that
will
offer
to
bee
a
rivall
with
her
wellbeloved
,
and
especially
that
sinne
,
whose
rivalty
hath
lately
cost
her
so
deare
,
as
the
losse
of
his
familiarity
.
And
the
soule
being
thus
washed
and
trimmed
by
repentance
,
holy
resolutions
,
and
renewing
her
covenant
,
the
bridegroome
of
the
soule
appeareth
to
her
againe
,
and
giveth
her
his
loves
.
And
now
is
she
like
a
garden
watered
after
a
scorching
heate
;
the
heate
being
overcome
by
moysture
,
makes
her
more
flourishing
,
and
more
fruitfull
:
the
belly
of
hell
having
vomited
up
the
soule
of
a
Saint
,
(
because
it
could
not
digest
her
)
shee
then
runnes
much
more
readily
in
the
wayes
of
Gods
commandements
.
The
stumpe
of
the
tree
(
for
it
was
not
pulled
up
by
the
rootes
)
springeth
and
flourisheth
againe
being
watered
with
the
dew
of
heaven
,
and
is
more
glorious
than
before
by
a
greater
acknowledgement
and
glorifying
of
the
Lord
of
glory
.
The
haire
(
for
it
was
onely
polled
)
groweth
again
,
&
so
doth
the
strength
of
the
spirit
,
and
greater
exploits
are
done
against
the
enemies
of
the
soule
,
than
ever
before
.
For
the
soule
having
beene
long
kept
fasting
,
feedes
more
heartily
on
the
bread
of
life
;
and
this
being
the
true
bread
that
strengthens
the
heart
of
man
,
the
more
feeding
on
it
,
the
more
strength
of
heart
:
A
long
drynesse
of
spirit
hath
made
her
very
thirsty
,
and
the
more
thirsty
she
is
,
the
more
doth
shee
drinke
of
the
waters
of
life
;
and
the
more
shee
drinkes
of
life
,
the
more
lively
and
active
shee
is
.
The
late
breach
of
love
increaseth
her
love
,
and
by
love
her
union
with
her
Lord
and
husband
:
and
the
increase
of
that
union
is
the
increase
of
holinesse
,
and
happinesse
.
There
is
yet
a
third
profit
by
spirituall
desertions
,
and
it
is
the
preventing
of
pride
,
which
usually
ariseth
upon
spirituall
revelations
,
or
any
other
excellencies
of
the
spirit
.
It
is
a
precious
and
a
glorious
thing
to
know
the
counsels
of
heaven
,
and
the
secrecies
of
that
kingdome
,
and
these
mysteries
doth
the
husband
of
the
soule
often
reveale
unto
her
in
the
bed
of
love
.
There
is
a
secret
murmure
of
things
inutterable
,
and
then
the
soule
wonders
at
the
deepe
wisedome
,
and
unspeakeable
truthes
which
are
discovered
to
her
:
yea
anon
she
wonders
at
her selfe
,
and
her
owne
happinesse
,
because
they
are
discovered
to
her
.
But
then
the
flesh
,
which
is
apt
to
swell
upon
the
apprehension
of
any
honour
or
eminence
,
steps
in
too
often
,
and
puts
his
swelling
into
the
soule
;
and
then
the
thoughts
of
the
soule
are
changed
:
For
whereas
before
shee
was
a
spirit
that
did
magnifie
the
Lord
,
and
rejoyced
in
God
her
Saviour
,
because
to
her
lowlinesse
hee
shewed
high
and
great
things
;
now
shee
rejoyceth
in
her selfe
,
because
of
that
which
she
hath
received
,
even
as
if
she
had
not
received
it
.
She
growes
proud
against
the
giver
,
even
by
his
owne
gifts
,
and
boasts
of
a
selfe-sufficiency
,
even
against
him
from
whom
her
sufficiencie
came
,
and
without
whom
she
hath
no
sufficiency
.
Babel
,
I
sit
as
a
Queene
;
Laodicea
,
I
am
rich
,
and
have
neede
of
nothing
.
But
indeed
this
riches
is
the
true
way
to
poverty
and
nothing
.
For
the
soule
being
once
rich
in
her
owne
opinion
,
turnes
her
eyes
from
her
husband
,
that
onely
gives
her
true
riches
,
and
so
lookes
from
riches
unto
poverty
.
And
againe
,
her
husband
seeing
her
rich
in
her
owne
opinion
,
strips
her
,
and
sends
her
naked
and
empty
away
.
But
what
a
folly
and
madnesse
is
it
in
the
soule
,
(
though
indeede
very
agreeable
to
the
blinde
flesh
that
maddeth
her
)
to
thinke
highly
of
the
secrets
and
mysteries
revealed
to
her
,
and
withall
to
stoppe
the
current
of
such
revelations
?
For
thus
she
doth
by
turning
away
the
face
,
and
turning
the
backe
unto
the
revealer
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
it
is
a
great
mercy
and
favour
in
the
revealer
,
to
stop
his
current
of
revelations
,
yea
to
send
some
spirituall
affliction
and
desertion
in
stead
of
them
,
to
prevent
or
amend
this
turning
away
of
the
soule
from
her
husband
the
giver
,
because
of
his
gifts
:
For
thus
by
a
short
absence
of
both
,
she
may
recover
both
the
sooner
,
and
keepe
them
the
longer
;
but
if
shee
should
have
that
which
she
will
abuse
,
the
having
of
it
would
cast
her
into
the
danger
of
a
greater
and
a
longer
losse
.
If
the
Moone
being
full
,
should
grow
proud
in
her
fulnesse
,
and
out
of
that
pride
neglect
the
Sunne
,
not
caring
though
the
earth
did
ever
keepe
him
out
of
sight
,
were
not
this
a
way
by
the
pride
of
her
light
to
bring
her
to
an
everlasting
darknesse
?
And
were
it
not
farre
better
for
her
,
that
the
Sunne
by
some
short
eclipse
and
interposition
of
the
earth
,
did
shew
her
her
owne
darknesse
being
without
his
light
,
that
so
she
may
the
more
steadily
and
continually
be
lightened
by
a
stedfast
and
continuall
looking
on
him
,
from
whom
her
light
commeth
?
And
thus
indeede
doth
the
husband
and
Sunne
of
the
soule
.
Having
sent
light
,
hee
sends
also
some
turne
of
darknes
,
that
by
a
short
darknes
he
may
prevent
a
longer
,
and
that
by
darknesse
hee
may
send
a
greater
light
.
Having
visited
the
soule
with
his
graces
,
hee
gives
a
medicine
and
preservative
against
pride
,
the
poyson
of
grace
,
and
a
restorative
to
humility
the
forerunner
of
grace
.
Humility
is
the
bed
,
wherein
the
Bridegroome
lyes
downe
and
rests
with
the
soule
:
With
whom
shall
I
rest
,
saith
hee
,
but
with
the
humble
&
contrite
soule
?
Wherfore
let
the
soule
account
it
a
benefit
,
when
this
bed
is
made
by
some
spirituall
affliction
;
for
the
King
of
grace
and
glory
is
shortly
comming
to
lodge
with
her
in
some
gracious
visitation
;
he
that
giveth
grace
to
the
humble
,
will
visit
her
with
abundance
of
consolations
;
he
will
give
her
his
loves
,
and
his
loves
shall
againe
tell
her
his
counsailes
:
And
then
shalt
thou
account
thy selfe
a
gainer
,
if
affliction
and
desertion
have
beene
so
great
as
to
bring
forth
a
great
humiliation
,
for
a
great
humiliation
shall
bee
followed
with
a
greatly
gracious
and
glorious
visitation
.
Fourthly
,
these
desertions
are
profitable
to
try
the
truth
of
our
love
;
and
the
tryall
of
our
love
shewes
us
the
faults
of
it
,
and
by
shewing
them
calls
upon
us
to
amend
them
.
The
husband
of
the
soule
will
see
whether
his
spouse
love
him
with
the
love
of
a
wife
,
or
of
an
harlot
.
The
love
of
an
harlot
loveth
a
man
onely
for
his
gifts
,
and
so
in
truth
loveth
not
the
man
,
but
the
gifts
.
And
though
this
be
secretly
true
,
when
by
outward
fashion
she
seemes
to
love
him
,
yet
it
is
manifestly
true
,
when
the
gifts
cease
,
for
then
her
love
to
the
man
also
ceaseth
.
But
the
true
wife
loveth
her
husband
,
even
for
himselfe
,
and
by
himselfe
,
shee
loves
him
without
gifts
,
yea
she
loveth
his
gifts
for
his
sake
,
for
she
would
nor
take
the
same
gifts
from
another
man
.
Yea
the
true
love
of
a
wife
goes
some
degrees
farther
;
for
shee
doth
nor
onely
love
her
husband
when
hee
gives
no
gifts
,
neither
doth
shee
onely
love
his
gifts
for
his
sake
,
but
she
loves
him
when
he
is
absent
from
her
,
even
when
she
is
without
both
his
presence
and
his
gifts
:
for
even
then
the
memory
of
him
is
precious
to
her
,
shee
calls
to
remembrance
his
perfections
,
his
vertues
,
and
his
loves
.
And
yet
the
true
love
of
a
wife
goes
farther
;
for
she
loves
her
husband
,
even
when
hee
chides
her
,
and
is
angry
with
her
,
though
in
that
case
an
husband
seemes
to
be
more
absent
being
at
home
,
than
an
husband
pleased
being
from
home
.
All
these
doth
the
true
spirituall
love
of
the
spouse
performe
unto
Christ
,
and
Christ
delights
to
see
them
performed
.
Christ
Iesus
loves
his
wife
with
a
true
love
,
for
he
hath
laid
downe
his
true
his
true
blood
and
life
for
her
.
And
greater
love
hath
no
man
,
than
he
that
laid
downe
his
life
for
his
beloved
.
Now
Christ
thus
truly
loving
his
wife
,
hee
expects
a
returne
of
true
and
unfained
love
from
his
wife
:
And
that
it
may
be
tried
to
be
true
,
or
amended
and
made
true
if
it
be
not
so
,
these
tryalls
are
sent
to
her
in
these
desertions
.
And
indeede
in
most
of
these
degrees
of
love
are
we
often
faulty
,
the
flesh
having
often
too
great
a
part
and
influence
in
our
love
.
For
the
flesh
as
mainly
for
things
present
and
palpable
,
and
like
Thomas
is
wholly
for
seeing
and
feeling
.
And
hence
it
is
that
our
love
dotes
so
much
on
the
gifts
of
Christ
Iesus
,
that
it
cooles
even
to
Christ
Iesus
himselfe
,
without
his
gifts
.
Wee
are
all
for
Christs
light
,
and
knowledge
,
for
his
kisses
and
embracements
,
for
his
hony
and
his
wine
,
for
his
sweetnesses
and
ravishings
:
and
without
these
Christ
is
a
dry
and
loathed
husband
,
as
Manna
to
the
fleshly
Israelites
was
a
dry
and
loathed
food
.
But
when
it
is
so
with
us
,
how
farre
are
we
short
of
those
higher
degrees
of
love
,
even
of
that
love
that
loveth
Christ
being
absent
and
hid
out
of
sight
,
or
that
loveth
him
being
present
in
that
utmost
absence
of
anger
,
chastisement
,
and
seeming
enmity
.
How
farre
short
are
we
of
that
Canaanitish
woman
,
But
that
thou
maist
be
sure
to
gaine
by
them
,
be
sure
to
learne
that
which
they
teach
thee
:
they
teach
thee
that
Christ
is
better
than
his
gifts
,
and
that
Christs
love
is
better
than
the
gifts
of
his
love
.
Therefore
learne
especially
to
fasten
thy
love
on
Christ
,
and
next
on
his
love
;
and
thinke
thy selfe
happy
enough
in
having
them
,
though
thou
hast
nothing
but
them
:
yea
know
also
that
thou
hast
them
,
even
when
thou
hast
them
not
;
they
are
thine
when
thou
seest
or
feelest
not
that
they
are
thine
.
He
and
his
love
see
thee
,
when
thou
seest
them
not
,
yea
they
love
thee
,
when
thou
feelest
them
not
;
and
he
and
his
love
are
better
than
the
seeing
and
feeling
of
him
and
his
love
;
and
it
is
better
for
thee
that
they
are
thine
,
than
that
they
doe
appeare
to
be
thine
.
Yea
,
it
is
good
for
thee
somtimes
,
that
they
do
not
appeare
to
be
thine
,
that
thou
maist
love
them
better
then
their
appearing
to
bee
thine
;
and
this
love
do
thou
learne
even
from
their
not
appearing
.
Yea
farther
,
Christ
and
his
love
are
thine
,
even
when
he
chideth
and
chastiseth
thee
,
for
it
is
his
very
love
that
chideth
and
chastiseth
thee
.
And
he
doth
it
to
purge
thy
blemishes
,
to
trie
and
exercise
thy
vertues
,
and
amonge
others
,
this
excellent
love
which
loveth
him
chastening
.
Therefore
though
he
kill
thee
,
do
thou
trust
in
him
and
love
him
,
for
Hee
that
loveth
thee
so
,
that
hee
gave
his
owne
life
for
thee
,
may
well
be
trusted
with
thy
life
.
For
his
owne
life
was
infinitly
better
then
thy
life
;
&
hee
that
gave
so
precious
a
life
for
thy
good
,
will
not
take
so
meane
a
life
from
thee
but
for
thy
good
.
Hence
it
is
that
even
by
loosing
thy
life
thou
shalt
finde
it
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
it
with
him
,
for
whom
thou
loosest
it
,
for
thou
shalt
finde
it
hid
with
Christ
in
God
.
O
woman
great
is
thy
faith
,
be
it
unto
thee
even
as
thou
wilt
:
He
will
say
to
the
Spouse
,
O
woman
great
is
thy
love
,
be
it
unto
thee
as
thou
wilt
.
Thou
willest
him
most
,
be
it
unto
thee
even
as
thou
wilt
.
For
when
thou
willest
him
most
,
thou
shalt
have
him
whom
thou
willest
most
;
he
will
come
unto
thee
,
yea
hee
will
come
much
unto
thee
,
and
thy
latter
end
shall
be
more
then
thy
beginning
.
By
wanting
him
,
shalt
thou
have
him
more
,
then
thou
hadst
before
thou
wantedst
him
,
because
by
wanting
him
,
thou
dost
love
him
more
,
then
thou
didst
when
thou
haddest
him
.
Fifthly
,
these
Desertions
are
profitable
to
the
Soule
,
by
teaching
her
patience
;
and
by
making
patience
to
bring
forth
her
kindly
fruites
wayting
and
attendance
.
The
husband
of
the
soule
is
a
King
of
glory
,
and
he
will
sometimes
expect
the
honour
,
and
service
of
patient
attendance
.
He
is
a
free
agent
,
and
his
Spirit
bloweth
when
,
as
well
as
where
he
listeth
.
Woman
,
my
houre
is
not
yet
come
.
There
are
times
and
tides
,
wherein
the
spirit
moveth
;
as
it
is
said
of
Sampson
,
The
spirit
of
the
Lord
moved
him
at
times
in
the
campe
of
Dan
:
The
Angel
of
the
Lord
,
at
a
certaine
season
went
downe
and
moved
the
waters
.
Now
these
times
and
seasons
are
in
his
owne
hands
,
and
it
is
not
in
the
soules
power
,
to
know
and
appoint
them
.
Therefore
as
the
eyes
of
the
handmaides
are
to
the
hands
of
her
Mistresse
,
patient
abiding
of
the
righteous
shall
not
perish
for
ever
.
those
which
honour
him
he
will
honour
:
Waite
on
the
Lord
,
and
commit
thy
way
to
him
,
and
he
shall
bring
it
to
passe
.
A
blessed
waiting
which
honoureth
the
Lord
,
and
blesseth
his
handmaid
:
and
a
blessed
absence
,
that
procures
this
waiting
which
draweth
his
presence
,
accompanied
with
blessednesse
.
But
take
heede
that
thy
patience
be
not
the
effect
of
dulnesse
or
neglect
,
nor
a
cause
of
idlenesse
:
be
not
patient
in
the
absence
of
thine
husband
,
because
thou
carest
not
for
his
presence
:
desire
his
presence
above
all
earthly
joyes
,
and
the
shining
of
his
countenance
above
all
corn
and
wine
.
My
soule
thirsteth
for
God
,
even
for
the
living
God
.
When
wilt
thou
come
unto
mee
?
And
in
the
second
place
take
heede
that
thou
give
not
thy selfe
over
to
a
desperate
idlenesse
,
to
doing
nothing
,
because
thou
canst
not
doe
as
thou
wouldest
.
This
were
a
double
offence
,
both
because
it
is
impatience
,
and
because
it
is
idlenesse
.
This
is
to
cut
off
the
hands
because
they
are
feeble
,
and
because
the
feete
halt
,
Why
stand
yee
all
the
day
idle
?
Rather
doe
that
which
may
winne
him
to
come
,
&
may
please
him
being
come
,
than
by
doing
nothing
keep
him
from
comming
,
or
make
him
angry
when
hee
commeth
.
And
if
thou
aske
what
thou
shalt
doe
;
Thy
most
ordinary
worke
is
the
worke
of
thy
ordinary
calling
,
yet
maist
thou
give
times
and
turnes
to
those
workes
that
more
immediatly
concerne
thy
heavenly
calling
,
even
such
as
immediatly
call
for
thy
heavenly
Lord
to
come
into
thy
soule
:
sigh
and
pray
,
and
reade
and
heare
,
and
by
heavenly
meditations
let
thy
soule
be
trimmed
as
a
bride
that
lookes
for
her
husband
:
yea
with
thy
earthly
labours
maist
thou
mixe
these
heavenly
thoughts
;
thou
maist
worke
and
sigh
,
worke
and
wish
,
worke
and
pray
in
short
ejaculations
:
and
thus
working
,
and
thus
waiting
,
working
in
profitable
duties
,
and
waiting
with
submissive
patience
,
he
that
loveth
both
thy
workes
and
thy
patience
will
come
unto
thee
,
and
say
,
I
know
thy
patience
and
thy
workes
:
Thy
last
shall
bee
more
than
thy
first
.
Finally
,
these
desertions
are
advantageable
to
the
soule
,
while
they
draw
her
eye
and
affection
from
this
place
of
interrupted
joyes
,
to
the
place
of
incessant
and
everlasting
joyes
.
The
Bridegroome
here
doth
but
looke
in
upon
the
soule
at
a
crany
,
and
the
soule
seeth
him
but
by
glimpses
,
but
there
shall
she
behold
him
face
to
face
;
and
this
beholding
as
it
is
full
,
so
it
shall
also
be
perpetuall
.
The
soule
is
here
walled
up
in
an
house
of
clay
,
and
the
trafficke
betweene
her
and
her
husband
is
but
by
some
chinke
which
the
spirit
hath
bored
.
But
this
clay
which
is
now
in
it selfe
nothing
but
darknesse
,
and
keepes
out
light
,
shall
hereafter
be
made
all
glorious
and
lightsome
;
yea
whereas
the
soule
is
now
much
carnall
,
then
the
body
shall
be
made
spirituall
:
red
forth
;
and
his
actions
are
answerable
to
his
name
.
As
he
was
annoynted
with
the
oyle
of
gladnesse
above
his
fellows
,
so
doth
he
give
of
his
oyntmentes
to
the
Bride
which
is
joyned
in
communion
and
fellowshipp
with
him
.
For
of
his
fulnesse
doth
shee
receive
,
even
grace
for
grace
.
The
pretious
Oyntment
drops
from
this
head
,
unto
his
body
,
the
Church
,
and
thereby
she
is
made
all
glorious
within
;
glorious
shee
is
now
within
by
grace
;
and
shee
shall
hereafter
be
glorious
,
both
within
and
without
with
perfect
glorie
.
Among
the
benefites
of
this
glorious
Grace
,
wherewith
the
Church
is
inwardly
beautified
,
when
the
Bridegrome
visits
her
with
his
spiritual
ointments
,
this
is
a
great
one
,
that
the
heavenly
oyle
giveth
light
to
the
soule
:
the
soule
is
a
lamp
,
&
with
this
oile
is
the
Lampe
of
the
wise
Virgins
trim'd
,
and
becomes
a
burnning
&
a
shining
light
.
They
have
that
light
from
the
bridegroom
,
by
which
they
looke
out
for
the
Bridegroome
.
The
eye
salve
is
gotten
from
Christ
,
by
which
the
eyes
of
the
Church
being
annoynted
doe
see
him
,
and
all
things
that
concerne
him
.
Spirituall
things
are
spiritually
to
bee
discerned
;
and
Christ
and
his
spouse
are
one
spirit
,
and
by
that
spirit
wherby
she
is
one
with
Christ
,
doth
shee
discerne
spiritual
things
.
The
husband
of
the
Church
,
is
the
wisedome
of
his
Father
,
and
when
wisdome
goes
into
a
soule
he
giveth
wisedome
to
the
soule
.
The
Spirit
by
which
he
enters
into
us
,
Wherefore
let
the
soule
make
speciall
use
of
this
precious
light
which
shineth
within
her
,
in
the
accesses
of
her
husband
,
let
her
marke
,
and
learne
,
and
record
the
discoveries
of
that
light
;
for
a
spirit
so
enlightened
will
discover
more
than
seven
men
upon
a
watch-tower
.
There
are
some
mysteries
and
secrets
which
thy
husband
wil
whisper
unto
thee
by
his
spirit
in
the
bed
of
love
,
and
then
let
him
that
hath
an
eare
,
heare
what
his
spirit
saith
.
But
if
he
doe
not
speake
to
thee
,
doe
thou
speak
to
him
;
know
of
him
those
things
that
are
needfull
for
thee
to
know
,
and
bring
to
his
light
those
things
that
thou
wouldest
have
truly
seene
and
discerned
.
Goe
into
this
Sanctuary
,
and
there
receive
Oracles
and
Answeres
;
for
there
shalt
thou
finde
resolutions
of
those
things
that
were
before
too
high
and
too
hard
for
thee
:
For
example
,
when
this
light
shines
in
upon
the
soule
,
looke
out
for
thy
happinesse
;
and
that
thou
maist
finde
it
,
set
all
things
before
this
light
,
which
are
briefly
these
,
The
Creatour
and
the
creature
,
God
and
the
world
:
and
having
done
this
,
thou
maist
plainly
see
,
where
is
true
,
solid
,
and
permanent
felicity
;
and
where
is
vanity
,
transitorinesse
and
misery
:
And
when
thou
hast
seene
it
,
know
it
to
be
the
very
truth
which
thou
hast
seene
;
and
that
which
is
once
truth
is
truth
for
ever
.
If
thou
wantest
the
skil
of
truly
measuring
time
and
eternity
,
so
that
a
short
life
seemes
to
thee
like
eternity
,
and
eternity
lesse
than
a
short
life
;
when
this
light
shines
in
thy
soule
,
bring
the
life
of
man
and
eternity
together
in
one
view
before
it
,
and
thou
shalt
quickly
learne
the
art
of
numbring
the
few
dayes
of
thy
life
,
This
is
the
way
,
walke
in
it
.
When
after
some
darke
nights
the
soule
is
visited
(
through
the
loving
kindnesse
of
her
beloved
)
with
these
day-springs
and
mornings
of
grace
,
then
let
her
say
,
Cause
mee
to
see
and
know
the
way
wherein
I
shall
walke
:
and
then
,
The
good
Spirit
will
leade
thee
into
the
land
of
uprightnesse
.
If
the
word
written
be
darke
to
thee
,
bring
it
to
this
light
,
and
if
it
be
fit
for
thy
measure
,
and
the
glory
of
thy
Lord
,
this
light
shall
reveale
it
:
For
the
Spirit
doth
reveale
the
hid
things
of
God
.
They
shall
be
all
taught
of
God
.
And
when
will
God
sooner
teach
than
when
he
visiteth
a
soule
with
his
spirit
,
I
have
called
you
friends
,
therefore
I
tell
you
my
counsels
.
But
remember
that
the
knowledge
which
thou
learnest
from
this
teacher
of
hearts
,
be
laid
up
by
thee
safe
,
as
a
precious
stocke
or
treasure
,
and
account
it
thy
best
learning
,
which
thou
hast
learned
of
the
best
Teacher
.
Having
bought
this
truth
sell
it
not
;
keepe
it
,
and
it
shall
keepe
thee
:
When
thou
goest
,
thy
steps
shall
not
be
straitned
,
and
when
thou
runnest
thou
shalt
not
stumble
:
Therefore
take
fast
holde
on
this
instruction
,
let
her
not
goe
,
keepe
her
,
for
shee
is
thy
life
.
Secondly
,
these
seasons
of
love
,
are
seasons
of
prayer
.
If
thou
want
any
thing
now
aske
it
,
for
in
these
heates
of
love
,
thy
husband
will
deny
thee
nothing
.
These
be
the
times
when
the
spirit
moveth
the
waters
;
therefore
now
cast
in
thy
petition
,
and
what
soever
griefe
it
hath
in
it
,
thou
shalt
be
cured
of
it
.
Now
the
King
holds
out
his
golden
Scepter
,
therefore
let
the
Queene
come
in
boldly
with
her
request
,
though
it
be
for
a
kingdome
.
Yea
this
King
likes
it
best
,
If
thou
doe
first
seeke
a
kingdome
:
whatsoever
prayer
or
supplication
shall
be
made
in
this
Temple
by
a
man
that
shall
know
the
plague
and
griefe
of
his
owne
heart
,
He
that
dwelleth
in
Heaven
will
heare
the
prayer
made
on
earth
,
Thirdly
,
when
the
soule
is
visited
by
the
spirit
of
the
Bridegroome
,
then
set
upon
some
good
,
yea
upon
some
great
worke
.
The
spirit
which
we
receive
is
a
spirit
of
power
,
Peter
,
Thou
canst
not
follow
me
yet
,
but
thou
shalt
follow
me
hereafter
:
Peter
,
that
he
was
filled
with
the
holy
Ghost
.
Sampson
,
he
doth
mighty
workes
;
Elymas
,
and
converteth
the
Deputy
.
Though
two
talents
gaine
but
two
,
yet
five
can
gaine
five
:
Therefore
marke
when
the
spirit
comes
mightily
upon
thee
,
and
then
attempt
some
mighty
worke
.
As
the
Seaman
watcheth
the
naturall
winde
and
tide
,
so
doe
thou
watch
the
winde
and
tide
of
the
spirit
:
The
spirit
bloweth
when
he
lifteth
,
and
when
hee
listeth
to
blow
,
then
set
forth
on
some
noble
action
:
when
the
tide
of
the
spirit
floweth
,
then
put
thy
hand
to
the
oare
,
for
then
if
thou
rowe
strongly
,
thou
maist
advance
mightily
.
The
soule
lying
in
flesh
and
bloud
,
is
like
a
boate
on
ground
,
all
the
rowing
in
the
world
will
not
move
it
,
but
let
the
tide
come
and
set
him
afloate
,
the
same
tide
that
enables
him
to
move
,
will
also
mightily
advance
the
motion
,
which
it
first
enabled
.
Wherefore
if
there
be
any
vertue
,
or
any
worke
of
excellence
,
not
yet
well
done
,
thinke
upon
it
in
these
times
and
tides
of
grace
:
now
set
upon
them
,
that
so
thou
maist
goe
from
vertue
to
vertue
,
untill
thou
be
skilfull
,
&
active
in
all
vertues
;
and
having
attained
the
full
number
of
them
,
then
strive
to
the
fulnesse
and
perfection
of
degrees
.
On
the
contrary
,
if
thou
have
some
mighty
enemie
,
that
hath
beene
too
hard
for
thee
,
even
some
raging
and
wasting
concupiscence
,
feare
,
distrust
,
or
other
tentation
,
now
set
upon
him
mightily
,
for
now
canst
thou
best
see
the
way
to
conquer
him
,
and
now
hast
thou
most
might
to
effect
this
conquest
,
and
to
doe
what
thou
seest
.
Having
tasted
this
honey
,
thine
eyes
shall
be
opened
,
all
goodnesse
,
righteousnesse
and
truth
.
I
can
doe
all
things
through
Christ
that
strengthens
mee
.
Neither
hast
thou
in
these
times
,
onely
a
greater
strength
to
encourage
thee
to
great
workes
,
but
also
a
great
joy
.
the
joy
of
the
Lord
is
our
strength
:
The
joy
that
is
in
us
is
a
peece
and
patterne
of
the
joy
set
before
us
,
and
by
this
peece
of
joy
within
us
,
beholding
the
joy
set
before
us
,
we
may
despise
the
shame
,
our
labour
is
not
in
vain
in
the
Lord
.
The
joy
which
we
have
excites
us
to
labour
,
because
as
this
joy
is
followed
with
labour
,
so
shall
the
labour
be
followed
with
an
over-waighing
joy
:
and
the
greater
the
labours
are
to
which
this
joy
of
the
spirit
encourageth
us
,
the
greater
shall
those
joyes
be
which
follow
these
labours
;
for
hee
that
soweth
plentifully
to
the
spirit
in
labours
,
shall
reape
plentifully
of
the
spirit
in
the
joyes
life
everlasting
.
Though
no
life
everlasting
can
be
longer
than
another
,
yet
one
life
everlasting
may
bee
more
joyfull
than
another
,
and
this
greater
joy
shall
follow
those
that
dying
in
the
Lord
doe
rest
from
greater
labours
.
And
as
the
joy
precedent
,
and
the
joy
subsequent
doe
encourage
us
to
the
labours
of
holinesse
,
so
doth
also
the
joy
concomitant
.
The
spirit
thriveth
,
growes
fat
,
prospereth
and
rejoyceth
in
the
doing
of
good
workes
,
even
like
the
mighty
man
in
the
running
of
his
race
.
Blessed
is
the
people
that
knowes
the
joyfull
sound
,
they
shall
walke
in
the
light
of
thy
countenance
,
O
Lord
.
They
that
know
the
joyfull
sound
,
are
blessed
,
and
they
are
walkers
:
The
joyfull
sound
is
a
precedent
blessednesse
,
and
a
present
blessednesse
it
is
,
to
walke
in
the
light
of
Gods
countenance
,
and
the
future
is
to
walke
by
that
light
unto
the
countenance
it selfe
,
which
is
perfect
blessednesse
.
The
joyfull
sound
,
and
the
light
of
Gods
countenance
,
doe
not
allow
any
to
take
up
their
rest
here
,
but
they
call
on
them
to
walke
,
even
to
walk
cheerfully
in
good
duties
,
by
these
streames
of
blessednesse
,
unto
the
ocean
and
fulnesse
of
blessednesse
.
Wherfore
let
us
make
this
use
of
the
precedent
,
present
,
and
following
joyes
,
even
to
walke
and
runne
that
race
of
piety
which
is
here
prevented
with
that
sound
,
accompanied
with
gladnesse
and
the
light
of
Gods
countenance
,
and
shall
be
followed
with
the
never-ending
sight
of
that
countenance
which
is
the
fountaine
of
that
light
,
and
which
to
behold
is
true
felicity
.
Fourthly
,
in
these
times
of
plenty
lay
up
a
stocke
of
confidence
and
comfort
for
times
of
scarsity
.
It
hath
bin
tolde
thee
before
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
it
true
,
that
the
Bridegroome
sometimes
hideth
his
face
,
and
holdes
backe
his
oyntments
,
and
the
spirit
which
bloweth
when
he
listeth
,
bloweth
not
when
he
listeth
not
.
Therefore
goe
unto
the
Pismire
,
and
learne
of
him
in
the
summer
of
consolation
,
to
provide
for
the
winter
of
desertion
.
My
Lord
,
and
my
God
:
lay
up
this
truth
for
the
times
of
desertion
,
and
beleeve
that
truth
to
bee
then
true
,
when
thou
feelest
not
the
truth
of
it
;
and
that
though
thou
art
changed
,
yet
Iesus
Christ
is
yesterday
,
to
day
,
and
the
same
for
ever
.
And
for
the
better
helpe
of
thy
memory
,
and
assurance
of
thy
soule
,
set
downe
upon
record
these
testimonies
and
tokens
of
love
,
and
seales
of
union
which
Iesus
gave
to
thy
soule
when
hee
visited
her
in
the
bed
of
love
.
In
an
ill
matter
Tamar
kept
a
seale
and
a
staffe
,
That
thou
hast
not
followed
cunningly
devised
fables
,
but
hast
beene
an
eye-witnesse
of
Christ
Iesus
and
his
love
:
And
what
thou
hast
seene
and
heard
,
and
felt
,
that
declare
and
shew
to
the
face
of
thy
accuser
:
tell
him
,
The
spirit
of
Iesus
hath
left
a
testimony
with
thy
spirit
,
that
thou
hast
beene
one
spirit
with
Iesus
in
an
heavenly
marriage
;
and
then
say
also
,
Wherefore
wee
are
no
more
two
but
one
spirit
;
let
no
tempter
,
nor
temptation
put
asunder
,
what
God
hath
put
together
.
Thus
in
laying
up
the
seales
of
union
,
thou
layest
up
a
stocke
of
confidence
;
and
thou
maist
see
Saint
Paul
making
the
same
provision
,
and
the
same
use
of
it
;
God
hath
given
us
the
earnest
of
the
spirit
,
therefore
are
wee
alwayes
confident
.
Neither
do
thou
only
from
these
Memorialls
gather
confidence
but
comfort
.
True
it
is
that
confidence
it selfe
will
bring
comfort
,
for
hope
is
the
juice
of
confidence
,
and
this
juice
is
an
especiall
confort
and
cordiall
to
the
soule
.
But
besides
this
comfort
which
ariseth
from
the
apprehension
of
the
things
to
come
,
thou
mayst
take
comfort
in
that
which
is
past
,
and
therewith
refresh
thy
soule
in
times
of
drought
and
wearinesse
.
By
these
memorials
&
pledges
,
call
to
remembrance
his
loves
his
sweetnes
,
his
kisses
,
his
oyntments
.
Renew
the
Images
,
and
keepe
them
fresh
in
thy
soule
,
and
these
shall
comfort
thee
,
when
the
things
themselves
are
absent
.
It
will
be
a
pleasure
to
thee
,
to
tast
over
his
loves
,
againe
&
againet
by
renewed
remembrances
of
them
.
It
will
be
a
pleasure
to
thee
to
repeate
the
pleasure
thy
soule
hath
enioyed
,
and
to
say
,
His
love
was
pleasanter
then
wine
,
and
I
eate
vnder
his
shadow
with
great
delight
,
and
his
fruite
was
sweete
to
my
tast
.
Thou
hast
tasted
&
by
tasting
seene
that
thy
Lord
was
gracious
,
and
now
see
and
by
seeing
tast
how
gracious
thy
Lord
was
.
For
as
tasting
brought
forth
seeing
at
the
first
,
so
now
a
revived
seeing
wil
also
bring
forth
a
revived
tasting
;
ech
mutually
begetting
other
.
Yea
,
many
times
when
thou
doest
this
only
by
remembrance
and
representation
of
that
which
is
past
,
thou
shalt
bring
into
thee
,
the
substance
of
that
whose
shadow
thou
recallest
:
And
so
while
Iesus
and
his
sweetnes
are
represented
to
thee
,
as
they
have
beene
heretofore
seene
and
tasted
,
they
will
even
now
present
themselves
afresh
to
be
tasted
and
seene
by
thee
.
While
the
Disciples
going
to
Emaus
talked
of
Iesus
as
of
one
that
was
absent
,
Lastly
,
let
the
peeces
and
earnests
of
heavenly
joyes
stirre
up
thy
desires
and
affections
,
to
the
fruition
of
the
fulnesse
of
joyes
;
let
these
drops
of
Gods
sweetnesse
enflame
thy
soule
with
a
thirst
and
longing
to
enjoy
God
the
fountaine
of
this
sweetnesse
.
Let
these
kisses
of
Christ
Iesus
kindle
in
thee
such
a
fervent
love
of
Christ
,
that
thy
soule
may
pant
to
bee
united
to
him
in
a
perfect
and
consummate
marriage
.
And
out
of
the
heate
of
these
longings
and
enflamed
desires
,
send
up
the
aspirations
and
breathings
of
thy
burning
soule
in
vehement
wishes
,
and
groaning
complaints
:
My
soule
thirsteth
for
God
,
when
shall
I
come
and
appeare
before
God
?
My
teares
have
beene
my
meate
day
and
night
,
while
the
flesh
saith
to
the
spirit
,
Where
is
thy
God
?
I
desire
to
bee
dissolved
,
and
to
bee
with
Christ
,
which
is
best
of
all
.
Surely
Christ
is
best
of
all
,
and
therefore
is
it
best
of
all
to
bee
with
Christ
.
Thou
hast
tryed
in
the
drops
of
his
sweetnesse
which
thou
hast
tasted
,
that
hee
is
best
of
all
,
for
the
taste
of
Christ
in
them
hath
distasted
all
the
taste
of
the
creatures
.
Thou
hast
tasted
and
seene
that
the
goodnesse
creating
is
better
than
the
goodnesse
created
;
and
therfore
Christ
is
best
of
all
.
These
droppes
of
the
Creatour
are
better
than
all
the
visible
creature
,
and
he
that
is
the
fountaine
is
better
than
the
drops
that
distill
from
the
fountaine
,
and
so
is
he
better
than
that
which
is
better
than
the
creature
,
and
therefore
is
best
of
all
:
and
if
he
be
best
,
surely
it
is
best
for
thee
to
bee
with
him
;
the
enjoying
of
the
best
is
the
best
enjoying
.
Therefore
call
unto
him
,
O
send
out
thy
light
and
thy
truth
,
let
them
leade
mee
,
let
them
bring
mee
unto
thy
holy
hill
:
let
thy
good
spirit
leade
mee
and
bring
mee
to
thy
blessed
presence
,
that
as
I
have
seene
thee
in
these
modells
,
and
mirrours
,
and
earnests
,
so
I
may
beholde
thee
face
to
face
.
And
though
thy
pilgrimage
be
prolonged
,
and
being
present
in
the
body
,
thou
art
absent
from
the
Lord
,
Moses
,
so
speaketh
he
to
the
true
Israel
by
these
earnests
,
Goe
forward
.
Why
stand
yee
still
gazing
and
resting
on
these
earnests
,
when
even
the
earnests
themselves
call
on
you
to
goe
forward
?
The
earnests
call
on
you
to
goe
forward
from
earnests
to
full
performances
,
from
grace
to
glory
,
from
faith
to
vision
,
from
the
drops
of
the
Deity
to
the
Deity
it selfe
,
the
onely
true
rest
and
Sabbath
of
the
soule
.
And
when
God
saith
,
Goe
forward
,
If
any
man
draw
backe
,
his
soule
shall
have
no
pleasure
in
him
.
But
of
all
drawing
backe
,
let
us
most
of
all
beware
of
drawing
backe
from
God
to
the
world
.
This
were
yet
a
farther
degree
of
going
back
from
God
;
for
whereas
the
drawing
backe
from
God
to
the
earnests
is
one
degree
,
this
going
back
from
the
earnests
to
the
world
is
a
second
and
a
most
fearefull
degree
.
This
is
a
true
returning
from
Canaan
to
Egypt
:
but
let
us
remember
what
the
Apostle
saith
of
the
right
possessours
of
these
earnests
:
Wee
are
not
of
them
who
draw
backe
unto
perdition
,
but
of
them
that
beleeve
to
the
saving
of
the
soule
.
If
we
beleeve
,
we
doe
looke
forward
,
and
goe
forward
,
for
faith
lookes
not
on
things
seene
,
but
on
things
not
seene
,
and
such
are
the
things
before
us
;
yet
because
the
strong
taste
of
the
onions
of
Egypt
,
(
even
of
fleshly
lust
)
doth
sticke
still
in
our
teeth
,
and
often
would
make
Manna
to
seeme
but
a
dry
meate
,
it
is
not
amisse
,
that
this
word
Goe
forward
,
be
often
sounded
in
the
eares
of
the
heavenly
pilgrims
.
These
earnests
are
Manna
,
and
this
Manna
is
not
such
a
dry
meate
,
as
the
flesh
would
make
it
,
for
it
serves
to
carry
us
unto
the
land
of
eternall
felicity
:
CAP.
VII
.
The
signes
,
and
markes
of
the
true
and
right
visitations
of
the
heavenly
Bridegroome
.
IT
is
necessary
to
shew
what
these
visitations
are
,
to
convince
that
they
are
,
and
so
to
undeceive
those
that
thinke
they
are
not
.
It
is
also
necessary
to
free
those
from
errour
,
who
beleeving
that
they
are
,
yet
doe
mistake
those
that
are
not
,
for
those
that
are
.
Such
visitations
there
are
,
for
they
are
seene
and
felt
by
men
seeing
and
waking
;
and
seeing
and
waking
not
onely
with
the
bodily
eyes
,
but
with
two
better
eyes
,
the
one
of
humane
reason
,
and
the
other
farre
excelling
that
,
divine
and
heavenly
light
.
Spirituall
light
beholds
these
spirituall
sights
,
and
shews
them
to
the
understanding
,
which
being
convinced
by
that
which
it
sees
,
beleeves
them
it selfe
,
and
would
also
deliver
over
the
sight
,
and
the
beleefe
of
them
to
others
.
But
the
thoughts
of
man
are
narrower
than
these
joyes
,
and
words
are
narrower
than
thoghts
.
But
,
which
is
worst
of
al
,
the
heart
of
an
earthly
man
is
narrower
than
the
narrow
words
of
a
spirituall
man
;
for
the
carnall
man
perceiveth
not
spirituall
things
,
though
they
be
held
up
before
his
fleshly
eyes
;
yet
in
the
mouth
of
two
or
three
eye-witnesses
a
word
should
stand
;
and
stand
it
doth
,
though
blinde
men
see
it
not
standing
before
them
,
and
therfore
stumble
at
it
.
But
who
knowes
whether
an
Ephatah
may
come
downe
from
heaven
,
that
while
a
spirituall
object
is
proposed
,
a
spirituall
sight
may
be
infused
?
Howsoever
the
words
of
heavenly
wisedome
are
not
spoken
in
vaine
to
the
children
of
wisedome
;
and
especially
those
who
are
yet
but
children
,
and
not
perfect
in
tae
art
of
discerning
good
and
evill
,
must
not
be
left
to
the
dangers
of
errour
and
mistaking
.
The
black
Angel
sometimes
changeth
himselfe
into
an
Angel
of
light
,
and
then
may
he
also
make
some
shewes
of
lightsome
visitations
.
There
is
also
a
sanguine
and
naturall
lightsomnesse
,
and
a
bright
beame
of
adustion
,
that
sometimes
shine
in
the
mind
,
and
these
also
may
be
mistaken
to
be
divine
.
But
the
spirit
is
not
flesh
,
much
lesse
is
hee
that
evill
spirit
,
which
is
contrary
to
him
.
And
because
the
spirit
is
that
which
these
are
not
,
the
visitations
are
such
,
as
those
imaginations
are
not
which
come
from
these
.
And
that
this
difference
may
the
better
be
discerned
,
let
let
us
beholde
the
true
characters
of
a
spirituall
visitation
,
which
the
soule
seeth
when
the
husband
of
soules
doth
visit
her
.
A
first
marke
and
signe
of
his
presence
is
light
;
a
light
not
fitted
for
the
eye
but
the
soule
,
even
a
light
spirituall
,
and
shining
spirit
and
truth
into
the
soule
and
spirit
.
For
the
Lord
is
a
spirit
,
and
when
hee
comes
into
the
soule
,
hee
comes
with
abundance
of
that
spirit
which
leadeth
into
all
truth
.
Hee
is
the
light
of
the
world
,
even
of
the
great
world
of
mankinde
,
and
therefore
when
he
comes
into
the
little
world
of
one
man
,
how
great
is
his
light
?
And
when
this
light
shineth
brightly
,
then
the
soule
by
it
doth
see
spirituall
things
as
truly
and
assuredly
,
as
the
corporall
eye
doth
corporall
things
.
For
there
is
an
agreement
betweene
a
spirituall
eye
,
and
spirituall
objects
,
as
there
is
betweene
the
bodily
eye
,
and
bodily
object
.
By
this
light
,
things
formerly
not
knowne
are
seene
and
discovered
,
and
spirituall
things
knowne
before
onely
by
a
carnall
,
which
is
a
false
knowledge
,
are
spiritually
,
and
so
truly
discerned
;
for
the
light
is
that
which
maketh
manifest
,
and
this
light
being
spirituall
maketh
spirituall
things
so
manifest
,
that
it
gives
a
full
assurance
of
understanding
,
and
makes
us
know
that
wee
know
them
.
Even
those
things
which
before
seemed
fables
and
foolishnesse
to
the
carnall
eye
,
to
this
spirituall
sight
and
light
,
appeare
plainly
to
be
deepe
mysteries
,
and
most
wise
truthes
.
Especially
the
great
Bridegroom
of
soules
,
who
to
the
Iewes
is
a
stumbling
blocke
,
and
to
the
Grecians
foolishnesse
,
to
this
light
appeares
clearely
to
be
the
wisedome
of
God
,
Now
that
wee
may
certainely
know
this
light
to
be
a
truth
,
and
not
an
imagination
,
and
withall
to
be
truly
spirituall
and
heavenly
,
and
not
carnall
,
earthly
,
much
lesse
infused
by
a
counterfeit
Angel
of
light
;
let
us
first
observe
that
this
light
of
the
spirit
doth
agree
with
the
light
of
the
word
:
The
same
spirit
of
God
which
shineth
now
in
our
soules
in
these
heavenly
visitations
,
did
first
shine
in
the
word
;
so
that
the
light
of
the
word
,
and
the
light
in
our
soules
are
twinnes
,
and
resemble
each
other
,
and
agree
like
brethren
.
If
therefore
there
be
this
agreement
,
then
there
is
this
brotherhood
,
and
if
no
agreement
,
then
there
is
no
brotherhood
.
Therefore
to
the
law
,
to
the
testimony
,
This
is
a
sufficient
tryall
and
touchstone
of
this
heavenly
light
,
though
if
neede
were
I
might
adde
,
the
willing
resignation
of
reason
,
even
of
the
naturall
light
of
the
soule
to
the
soveraignty
of
this
divine
and
heavenly
light
.
The
understanding
is
not
fettered
and
bound
by
a
violent
hand
,
but
it
yeelds
it selfe
up
freely
to
bee
subdued
and
captivated
by
a
light
that
surpasseth
the
light
which
it selfe
hath
.
The
reasonable
light
of
man
continueth
in
man
,
even
when
this
supernaturall
light
shineth
;
it
knowes
what
other
men
know
,
and
knowes
what
it selfe
knew
and
thought
before
this
light
came
to
it
;
but
this
light
being
come
,
it
yeelds
willingly
to
it
,
and
surrenders
both
it selfe
and
the
man
whom
it
formerly
guided
.
This
homage
of
reason
shewes
a
soveraignty
in
that
spirituall
light
to
which
reason
doth
this
homage
.
The
going
out
of
the
light
of
a
candle
,
(
not
by
quenching
,
but
not-shining
)
acknowledgeth
a
greater
and
more
excellent
light
to
be
present
.
And
indeede
reason
even
with
reason
gives
way
,
that
a
greater
light
should
rather
guide
than
a
lesser
;
yea
with
reason
it
gives
way
,
that
it selfe
being
a
lesser
light
,
should
be
increased
and
enlarged
by
a
higher
and
greater
,
that
so
it
may
discerne
higher
and
greater
things
.
And
this
increase
it
experimentally
findes
:
for
by
this
new
and
greater
light
,
the
soule
sees
the
supreme
light
which
begate
it
,
she
sees
him
to
be
her
soveraign
good
;
shee
sees
the
way
to
him
,
and
is
directed
to
union
with
him
,
and
to
the
full
fruition
of
him
.
And
because
shee
sees
these
excellent
things
now
,
which
shee
saw
not
before
,
shee
justly
and
wisely
resignes
her selfe
to
that
light
by
which
shee
sees
those
excellent
things
which
she
saw
not
before
,
and
to
that
sight
by
which
she
seeth
in
a
more
excellent
manner
of
seeing
.
A
second
Character
and
marke
of
a
divine
visitation
,
is
ioy
,
even
a
ioy
of
a
different
kind
and
character
from
other
ioyes
;
For
this
ioy
ariseth
not
originally
from
naturall
principles
neither
fastneth
it selfe
on
naturall
obiectes
,
but
is
supernaturall
in
the
roote
of
it
,
and
fixeth
it selfe
on
supernaturall
objects
.
It
is
no
sanguine
joy
,
neither
made
of
humor
and
complection
,
for
it
ariseth
often
in
the
midst
of
sadnes
within
,
and
crosses
without
.
The
spiritual
man
therfore
thus
truely
describeth
the
manner
of
them
,
In
the
midst
of
the
sorrowes
of
my
heart
,
thy
comforts
have
refreshed
me
.
Even
when
the
outward
man
decayeth
,
&
dyeth
away
,
the
inward
man
reneweth
and
rejoyceth
:
Thou
hast
turned
(
saith
David
)
my
mourning
into
dancing
,
thou
hast
put
off
my
sackcloth
,
and
girded
me
with
gladnes
.
There
is
a
river
that
maketh
glad
the
City
of
God
,
there
is
the
new
wine
of
the
kingdome
,
that
makes
the
heart
merry
;
there
is
a
heavenly
oyle
that
maketh
that
face
pleasant
and
joyfull
,
which
is
the
image
of
God
;
these
flow
forth
from
the
throne
in
heaven
,
from
the
true
vine
,
from
the
right
olive
,
and
that
it
may
appeare
that
they
doe
so
,
they
are
commonly
sent
into
thirsty
,
Shall
I
fetch
you
water
out
of
this
rock
?
when
there
is
no
wine
,
and
there
appeares
nothing
but
water
,
even
teares
and
sorrowes
,
it
must
bee
a
divine
hand
that
turnes
this
water
into
wine
.
When
the
soule
is
oppressed
with
spirituall
wants
,
and
sees
nothing
but
griefe
within
,
and
terrours
without
,
it
must
be
the
worke
of
God
to
make
this
oyle
to
runne
,
Much
affliction
and
joy
in
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Peter
,
Yee
greatly
rejoyce
,
though
ye
are
in
heavinesse
:
Wherefore
since
to
the
Saints
there
ariseth
a
light
in
the
middest
of
darknesse
,
And
as
this
joy
is
divine
and
heavenly
,
flowing
from
a
divine
and
heavenly
fountain
,
so
is
it
also
divine
and
heavenly
,
because
it
fasteneth
on
divine
and
heavenly
objects
.
Things
that
love
are
like
:
the
naturall
joy
delights
in
naturall
objects
,
and
a
spirituall
joy
in
spiritual
objects
.
Accordingly
while
the
naturall
joy
lookes
out
for
corne
and
wine
,
Another
property
of
these
joyes
,
by
which
they
prove
themselves
to
be
spirituall
,
is
this
,
that
they
are
nutrimentall
to
the
very
soule
&
spirit
of
man
.
They
feede
,
they
satisfie
,
and
in
their
measure
fill
the
soule
,
and
give
her
an
inward
thriving
,
and
increase
.
Bodily
joyes
are
thicke
and
grosse
,
and
by
their
grossenesse
sticke
behind
in
the
body
,
and
pierce
not
to
the
soule
;
and
if
any
thing
come
to
the
soule
from
them
,
it
is
commonly
but
filth
,
dregs
,
guilt
,
vexation
or
shame
.
Shee
may
bee
more
clouded
by
them
,
made
more
dull
,
earthy
,
and
foule
,
by
materiality
,
or
filth
,
cast
upon
her
;
but
they
enter
not
into
the
inward
parts
of
the
soule
,
to
water
the
roote
of
her
,
and
to
give
her
true
,
kindly
,
and
reall
increase
.
As
mudde
is
to
the
thirsty
bodies
,
so
are
these
to
thirsty
soules
,
they
cannot
drinke
them
in
,
nor
quench
their
thirst
with
them
:
But
the
spirituall
joyes
enter
in
,
and
enlarge
the
very
soule
of
man
;
they
make
her
who
is
a
spirit
more
spirituall
,
for
shee
opens
her
mouth
wide
to
them
,
and
then
shee
is
filled
with
that
spirituall
and
divine
sappe
,
which
accompanieth
them
,
and
wherein
they
are
founded
.
And
then
as
shee
hath
heard
,
so
she
hath
seene
and
tasted
,
But
I
hasten
to
a
third
Marke
of
spirituall
visitations
,
and
that
is
holinesse
.
For
when
Christ
visiteth
the
soul
,
as
he
doth
clarifie
her
with
light
,
and
ravish
her
with
joy
,
so
he
doth
beautifie
her
with
holinesse
.
Externall
joyes
,
and
joyes
of
the
body
,
have
not
this
vertue
,
neither
can
they
give
it
to
the
soule
:
but
when
Christ
commeth
into
the
soule
by
his
spirit
,
the
same
spirit
that
doth
enlighten
and
glad
her
,
doth
also
hallow
her
;
yea
as
by
the
light
she
is
directed
to
holinesse
,
so
by
the
gladnesse
shee
is
lifted
up
,
encouraged
,
and
actuated
unto
holines
.
In
these
accesses
of
Christ
there
are
heights
of
union
,
and
the
increases
of
union
bring
with
them
increases
of
uniformity
.
The
spirit
of
union
is
fire
,
and
fire
turnes
that
into
it selfe
to
which
it
is
united
:
and
the
fuller
and
closer
this
union
is
,
the
more
is
this
turning
.
So
Christ
Iesus
,
the
more
hee
comes
into
a
soule
by
his
spirit
,
the
more
spirituall
doth
he
make
her
;
yea
the
more
doth
hee
melt
a
soule
into
himselfe
;
the
more
doth
hee
turne
her
will
into
his
will
,
and
the
more
doth
hee
increase
his
owne
image
in
her
;
and
wee
know
that
his
image
is
righteousnesse
and
true
holinesse
.
The
spirit
by
which
Christ
visiteth
his
spouse
is
an
holy
spirit
and
a
spirit
of
power
;
Yea
I
may
say
,
that
hereunto
the
very
loue
of
Christ
constrayneth
vs
.
For
in
these
visitacions
,
and
by
them
,
the
loue
of
Christ
is
shed
into
our
harts
.
Yea
they
cannot
but
love
him
for
the
union
they
have
with
him
,
and
the
joyes
of
this
union
:
And
loving
him
they
wil
desire
to
bring
forth
fruite
unto
him
,
Wherefore
if
with
light
and
joy
,
the
soule
doe
feele
,
that
the
spirit
of
Christ
,
by
spirituall
heate
,
power
,
and
love
,
have
wrought
a
powerfull
,
and
fruitfull
holinesse
in
her
,
let
her
know
that
Christ
Iesus
himselfe
hath
beene
with
her
.
Carnall
and
corporall
things
cannot
doe
this
,
evill
Angels
neither
can
nor
will
doe
it
;
good
Angels
though
they
rejoyce
to
see
it
done
,
yet
they
doe
it
not
,
but
that
spirit
alone
both
can
doe
it
,
&
doth
it
,
which
is
the
power
and
right
hand
of
God
;
&
which
onely
writeth
the
lawes
of
God
in
the
hearts
and
soules
of
men
.
Thou
hast
loved
righteousnesse
,
and
hated
iniquity
,
therefore
God
even
thy
God
hath
anoynted
thee
with
the
oyle
of
gladnesse
above
thy
fellowes
:
Salomon
,
so
there
are
no
such
oyntments
of
grace
and
gladnesse
,
as
a
greater
than
Salomon
doth
give
to
his
Queen
,
when
hee
and
shee
are
met
in
the
heates
of
a
spirituall
conjunction
,
and
the
excesses
of
a
fruitive
union
.
CAP.
VIII
.
A
Corollary
of
counsailes
and
directions
,
to
those
that
are
entred
into
the
estate
of
this
blessed
Marriage
.
LEt
it
be
the
maine
endeavor
of
a
soule
married
to
Christ
,
to
keepe
her selfe
still
in
that
point
wherein
she
may
keepe
him
;
and
so
keepe
him
,
that
she
may
still
say
,
and
feele
what
she
sayes
,
My
well-beloved
is
mine
,
and
I
am
my
well-beloveds
:
To
this
end
,
let
her
still
cast
,
and
consider
with
her selfe
,
what
those
things
are
which
hee
most
loves
,
and
make
her
most
lovely
in
his
eyes
:
for
the
spirit
of
this
lover
,
loves
to
be
there
where
his
love
is
.
Therefore
if
there
be
any
praise
,
any
vertue
,
thinke
on
those
things
,
and
set
them
as
pearles
,
and
jewells
about
thy
soule
,
to
make
her
glorious
and
amiable
in
his
sight
.
Let
the
face
of
the
soule
,
even
the
image
of
the
most
excellent
Deity
,
shine
brightly
in
his
eyes
,
being
anoynted
with
fresh
oyle
;
and
let
her
be
lovely
to
him
by
those
oyntments
which
make
him
lovely
to
her
.
Let
her
often
goe
out
of
the
body
,
yea
out
of
the
world
by
heavenly
contemplations
;
and
treading
on
the
top
of
the
earth
with
the
bottome
of
her
feet
,
stretch
her selfe
up
,
to
looke
over
the
world
,
into
that
upper
world
,
where
her
treasure
,
her
joy
,
her
beloved
dwelleth
.
Let
her
stand
in
this
watch-tower
,
and
looke
out
for
her
lover
,
as
the
watch-man
looks
out
for
the
morning
;
and
then
the
day-spring
from
on
high
shall
visite
her
.
Turne
thy
face
away
from
the
enchantments
of
this
world
,
Seeke
my
face
continually
:
and
it
is
an
answer
which
he
loves
to
receive
from
the
soule
,
Thy
face
,
O
Lord
,
will
I
seeke
.
And
thus
beholding
Christ
Iesus
with
open
face
,
thou
shalt
see
,
and
feele
things
inutterable
;
thou
shalt
also
bee
changed
from
beauty
to
beauty
,
Againe
,
if
with
that
hearty
lover
,
whose
heart
was
according
to
the
heart
of
his
well-beloved
,
thou
canst
truly
say
,
Mine
eyes
are
alwayes
to
the
Lord
;
having
procured
his
comming
,
thou
shalt
also
stay
him
from
going
:
Thy
heart
shall
watch
him
,
and
keepe
him
,
and
holde
him
;
for
where
he
is
so
watched
and
held
from
going
,
he
is
willing
to
abide
.
The
story
is
well
knowne
,
that
though
hee
seemed
as
though
hee
would
have
gone
further
,
And
that
thou
maist
keep
his
love
fresh
,
and
fervent
to
thee
,
keepe
thy
owne
love
fresh
and
fervent
to
him
.
For
love
draweth
love
,
and
fervent
love
makes
love
fervent
like
it selfe
.
Love
is
like
burning
coales
,
and
burning
coales
will
kindle
coales
that
are
not
burning
.
Therefore
kindle
thy
love
,
and
make
it
to
flame
,
by
thinking
on
his
beauty
,
on
his
sweetnes
,
on
his
goodnes
.
Kindle
it
by
renewing
the
olde
tastes
of
him
,
which
thou
hast
formerly
tasted
.
Kindle
thy
love
,
by
reviving
the
images
of
loves
past
:
put
thy selfe
into
the
same
thoughts
wherein
thou
wast
,
when
thou
didst
enjoy
him
.
And
so
if
thy
minde
be
fitted
,
and
put
into
a
state
of
enjoying
,
it
is
likely
that
hee
will
come
into
a
minde
so
fitted
,
and
thou
shalt
enjoy
him
.
And
if
hee
come
not
yet
into
thee
,
stirre
up
thy
spirituall
concupiscence
,
and
therewith
let
the
soule
lust
mightily
for
him
,
and
let
her
lusts
and
desires
ascend
up
to
him
in
strong
cryes
and
invocations
,
Be
carefull
that
there
be
a
perpetuall
consent
of
thy
will
unto
his
will
,
and
a
perpetuall
issuing
of
thoughts
and
actions
from
this
consent
and
conformity
.
In
the
house
of
this
husband
there
must
be
but
one
will
,
and
that
is
the
husbands
.
The
wifes
will
must
be
melted
into
the
will
of
the
husband
,
and
her
will
must
not
live
,
but
her
husbands
will
must
live
in
her
.
And
then
this
husband
will
delight
to
be
much
at
home
,
where
he
may
be
Master
;
and
he
will
delight
often
to
give
the
unity
of
fruition
,
where
there
is
an
unity
of
will
and
affection
:
but
where
the
wifes
will
doth
crosse
the
will
of
the
husband
,
there
is
he
wearied
away
,
and
that
house
is
to
him
as
a
place
of
continuall
dropping
,
offensive
,
and
indeed
unfit
to
entertaine
that
Lord
who
is
the
King
of
glory
.
A
King
loves
to
be
in
his
Kingdome
where
he
commandeth
and
is
obeyed
;
and
therefore
if
thou
wilt
have
this
King
to
visit
and
dwell
with
thee
,
let
him
command
and
reigne
in
thee
:
for
he
hath
told
thee
himselfe
,
If
any
man
love
mee
,
and
keepe
my
commandements
,
I
will
love
him
,
and
will
appeare
plainly
to
him
.
Wherefore
if
the
soule
desire
to
please
her selfe
by
the
fruition
of
his
presence
,
let
her
especially
and
mainely
strive
to
please
him
:
for
by
pleasing
him
,
she
shal
be
pleased
by
him
,
whose
pleasure
is
infinitely
greater
than
that
which
ariseth
out
of
her
pleasing
of
her selfe
.
Let
her
give
away
her
owne
will
for
his
will
,
and
in
so
doing
shee
shall
be
a
double
gainer
:
for
she
changeth
a
worse
will
for
a
better
,
and
withall
gaines
him
whose
the
better
will
is
,
and
who
is
infinitely
better
than
her selfe
.
Wherefore
strive
to
please
him
,
and
to
give
him
his
will
,
yea
strive
to
give
it
much
and
mainly
;
for
the
more
thou
givest
it
,
the
more
thou
receivest
into
thee
a
most
excellent
will
,
and
a
most
excellent
husband
.
Thus
shalt
thou
please
thy selfe
most
,
by
pleasing
him
,
and
not
thy selfe
.
What
husband
is
there
,
who
seeing
his
wife
to
neglect
her selfe
for
him
,
but
hee
will
love
and
cherish
that
wife
the
more
,
the
more
shee
neglects
her selfe
for
him
?
And
then
by
how
much
his
love
and
cherishing
is
more
advantageable
and
pleasing
than
her
owne
,
so
much
is
her
gaine
advanced
,
by
loving
and
pleasing
him
more
than
her selfe
.
And
because
there
is
some
beauty
and
good
in
the
creature
,
(
though
indeed
subject
to
vanity
,
and
blasted
with
a
curse
)
and
there
is
a
law
of
the
members
reigning
in
the
worst
,
and
not
wholly
rooted
out
of
the
best
,
which
loves
to
looke
on
the
creature
,
and
by
looking
lusts
after
it
;
let
the
soule
married
to
Christ
be
very
wary
how
she
turnes
her
eye
,
and
fixeth
it
on
the
creature
.
For
if
her
eye
goe
much
after
it
,
and
fettle
long
upon
it
,
her
love
is
likely
to
come
after
her
eye
.
She
may
looke
on
it
,
and
behold
the
goodnesse
of
it
,
but
in
beholding
the
goodnesse
of
it
,
shee
must
againe
look
from
it
,
to
that
transcendent
,
originall
,
and
infinite
goodnesse
of
her
husband
,
of
whom
this
goodnesse
was
borrowed
.
For
by
him
all
things
were
made
,
that
were
made
.
Againe
,
she
may
looke
on
it
to
see
the
vanity
of
it
,
that
by
seeing
the
vanity
of
it
,
shee
may
looke
from
it
to
her
Lord
and
Husband
,
in
whom
is
stability
,
and
perpetuall
felicity
.
And
yet
againe
she
may
looke
on
it
,
to
see
the
curse
that
is
cast
upon
it
,
and
in
the
terriblenesse
of
that
curse
,
shee
may
see
the
horrour
of
sinne
,
that
looking
from
it
againe
to
her
Lord
and
Saviour
,
she
may
see
the
excellency
of
his
love
,
and
inestimable
value
of
his
person
,
who
hath
taken
away
the
curse
,
and
the
sinne
from
his
beloved
Spouse
,
and
gives
her
a
blessed
use
of
the
creature
,
and
full
blessednesse
in
the
eternall
fruition
of
the
Creatour
.
Thus
looking
to
the
creature
,
by
looking
to
it
,
shee
lookes
from
it
,
she
rests
not
in
it
,
but
passeth
by
it
to
her
only
true
rest
.
And
indeed
by
these
and
the
like
removals
the
soule
should
ever
bee
kept
loose
from
the
world
.
For
as
when
we
would
not
have
things
to
glue
and
fasten
,
we
doe
often
touch
,
and
turne
,
and
moove
them
;
so
the
soule
being
apt
to
glue
and
fasten
to
the
world
,
wee
must
by
these
and
the
like
meditations
often
touch
and
remove
her
,
that
so
she
may
be
kept
continually
loose
from
it
.
But
because
the
cyment
which
joynes
the
soule
to
the
world
is
the
flesh
,
and
she
must
adulterate
first
with
this
old
husband
,
before
she
can
prostitute
her selfe
to
the
world
;
let
the
soule
take
especiall
care
to
watch
and
resist
the
approaches
of
this
fly
,
but
deadly
enemy
,
that
commeth
in
the
shape
of
a
lover
.
This
is
he
whom
the
true
husband
,
whose
name
is
jealous
doth
perfectly
hate
,
But
if
through
thy
owne
remisnesse
,
or
the
fleshes
importunity
,
the
soule
by
concupiscence
hath
conceived
sinne
,
make
haste
to
the
fountaines
set
open
for
Iudah
and
Ierusalem
to
wash
,
and
to
be
cleane
.
Wash
thy selfe
in
teares
and
bloud
;
Thy
sinnes
are
forgiven
thee
.
And
having
regained
him
,
make
thy selfe
more
one
with
him
,
and
increase
thy
communion
with
him
.
Touch
him
hard
with
thy
faith
,
sucke
him
strongly
with
thy
love
,
that
more
vertue
may
come
out
of
him
,
to
cure
that
issue
of
sinne
yet
abiding
in
the
remnant
of
the
flesh
,
and
to
make
thee
more
one
and
uniforme
with
him
.
For
as
a
bough
,
the
more
hee
suckes
from
the
tree
,
the
larger
is
his
union
with
the
tree
,
and
the
more
is
his
likenesse
to
the
tree
,
so
the
more
a
soule
draws
from
Christ
,
the
more
is
she
one
with
him
,
and
the
more
is
shee
like
him
.
And
againe
,
the
more
shee
is
like
him
,
the
more
will
hee
delight
to
bee
one
with
her
;
and
thus
shall
she
goe
on
in
an
endlesse
circle
of
happines
.
The
highest
and
happiest
,
and
sweetest
harmony
is
,
when
the
soule
is
in
an
unizon
with
her
Saviour
and
husband
:
every
touch
and
sound
of
the
soule
thus
tuned
to
Christ
Iesus
,
resoundeth
in
him
,
toucheth
and
moveth
him
.
And
as
with
the
sound
of
outward
musicke
the
spirit
of
God
came
upon
the
Prophet
;
And
that
thou
maist
thus
grow
,
let
not
swelling
,
but
growth
be
the
end
of
thy
sucking
.
Desire
the
sincere
milke
,
that
thou
mayst
growe
thereby
,
in
solide
substance
,
not
in
frothy
and
puffy
imaginations
.
Growe
thou
in
the
reall
excellence
of
a
divine
Nature
,
and
not
in
the
empty
swellings
of
a
fleshly
pride
.
For
the
flesh
hath
sometimes
a
desire
of
spirituall
excellencyes
,
but
it
is
for
a
fleshly
end
,
even
to
puffe
it selfe
up
by
them
.
But
seeke
not
these
pearls
,
to
cast
it
to
these
Swine
,
nor
this
Bread
of
heaven
to
give
it
to
such
dogs
.
Rather
buffet
this
flesh
and
beate
it
downe
,
lest
a
messenger
of
Satan
be
sent
to
buffet
thee
for
not
buffeting
it
,
and
so
when
thou
lookest
for
a
good
spirit
to
exalt
thee
,
an
evill
spirit
be
sent
to
beate
&
humble
thee
.
Christ
comes
into
thee
,
not
to
feede
,
but
to
kill
the
flesh
;
wherefore
thy
end
and
his
are
contrary
,
if
thou
desire
his
coning
to
feede
that
,
which
he
comes
to
kill
.
If
then
thou
wouldest
have
him
come
indeede
into
thee
,
joyne
with
him
in
the
proposall
of
one
&
the
same
end
;
even
the
exaltation
of
the
Spirit
,
and
the
death
of
the
flesh
:
allowe
not
fleshly
swelling
to
bee
an
end
:
no
not
a
subsequent
,
of
thy
meeting
with
Christ
;
but
kill
it
,
if
after
this
meeting
it
arise
in
thee
.
The
flesh
hath
no
part
nor
portion
in
this
service
;
but
to
bee
slaine
by
it
:
therefore
let
not
this
left
hand
of
the
flesh
,
know
,
what
the
right
hand
of
the
spirit
doth
in
thee
:
but
be
thou
wholly
spirituall
,
in
a
spirituall
,
in
a
spirituall
busines
,
and
by
it
growe
more
spirituall
,
and
,
not
more
,
but
,
lesse
carnall
.
Againe
,
desire
not
these
sweetnesses
of
spirituall
vnion
,
onely
because
they
are
sweete
;
for
in
this
the
flesh
also
may
have
his
part
,
both
in
desire
and
fruition
.
Be
not
like
the
children
of
Israell
,
blessed
is
the
land
,
when
her
Princes
eate
for
strength
,
and
not
for
riot
;
&
blessed
is
the
Church
when
her
Nobles
eate
this
spirituall
foode
for
spirituall
strength
,
and
not
for
lust
and
luxury
.
It
is
a
kinde
of
luxury
to
make
taste
,
and
not
strength
the
maine
end
of
eating
:
but
let
the
sweetnesse
of
the
taste
bee
used
as
an
encouragement
unto
eating
for
strength
.
Out
of
the
strong
one
comes
this
sweetnesse
,
that
by
this
sweetnesse
thou
maist
be
made
partaker
of
his
strength
.
Wherfore
having
found
this
honey
,
eate
with
Ionathan
,
that
thou
maist
be
strengthened
in
services
to
be
done
,
and
against
enemies
to
be
resisted
.
Eate
that
thou
maist
strengthen
thy
faith
,
and
that
the
eyes
of
the
inner
man
being
enlightened
,
thou
maist
the
more
clearely
discerne
the
riches
of
glory
given
to
thee
in
Christ
Iesus
.
Strengthen
thy
faith
also
,
that
thou
maist
more
fully
,
and
closely
cleave
unto
him
with
thy
will
,
whom
thou
hast
seene
with
thy
understanding
to
bee
the
treasure
of
perfect
felicity
.
Yea
let
not
thy
faith
leave
growing
from
strength
to
strength
,
untill
it
bring
thee
beyond
faith
unto
vision
.
Eate
that
thou
maist
strengthen
thy
hope
,
and
that
thou
maist
hope
the
more
perfectly
to
receive
the
full
fruition
of
that
sweetnesse
,
and
blessednesse
,
whereof
here
by
this
eating
thou
hast
received
the
foretastes
and
pledges
.
Eate
that
thou
maist
strengthen
thy
love
,
and
that
thou
maist
love
him
with
a
love
above
all
loves
,
whom
thou
hast
seene
and
tasted
to
be
fairer
and
sweeter
than
all
that
can
be
loved
.
And
by
strengthening
thy
love
to
him
,
strengthen
also
thy
love
to
his
will
,
and
to
his
law
the
copie
of
his
will
.
The
sweetnesse
which
thou
tastest
,
must
needes
love
the
law
,
for
they
are
twinnes
;
this
sweetnes
being
shed
into
our
soules
,
and
the
law
written
in
our
hearts
by
one
and
the
same
spirit
.
And
as
the
sweetnesse
brings
with
it
a
love
of
the
law
,
making
it
sweete
to
us
,
Be
not
discouraged
,
if
he
come
not
so
often
to
thee
,
nor
stay
so
long
with
thee
as
thou
desirest
.
The
baites
of
a
traveller
are
short
,
and
his
journey
long
.
The
meales
of
Elijah
were
but
two
,
Againe
bee
not
discouraged
,
if
hee
come
not
still
when
thou
thinkest
that
thou
hast
prepared
thy
soule
,
and
made
the
bed
of
loue
for
him
.
Thou
mayest
perchance
bee
short
of
that
fitnes
which
thou
thinkest
,
for
he
is
a
God
of
pure
eyes
,
Open
to
me
,
my
sister
,
my
loue
,
my
doue
,
my
vndefiled
.
Wherefore
let
vs
looke
mainely
to
our
owne
part
;
to
haue
our
lampes
trimmed
with
faith
,
and
loue
;
and
let
vs
trust
him
with
his
owne
part
;
the
choise
of
the
times
and
seasons
of
his
comming
.
Yea
againe
and
againe
,
be
not
discouraged
,
though
hitherto
thou
hast
not
felt
the
spiritual
kisses
of
Christ
Iesus
,
the
extasyes
of
his
wine
,
nor
the
rauishments
of
his
vnion
.
It
may
be
the
houre
of
thy
Lord
&
Sauiour
is
not
yet
come
,
nor
the
day
wherein
hee
shall
say
,
This
day
shalt
thou
bee
with
me
in
Paradise
.
This
day
was
the
last
day
to
him
,
to
whom
it
was
first
said
,
and
it
may
be
one
of
thy
latter
dayes
wherin
it
shall
bee
said
to
thee
,
this
day
will
I
be
with
thee
,
and
make
a
Paradise
within
thee
.
Yet
let
not
these
dayes
be
late
dayes
,
much
lesse
last
dayes
by
thy
delayes
,
howsoever
late
they
may
be
his
dispensations
.
Remember
him
in
thy
youth
,
And
yet
lesse
let
those
be
discouraged
,
who
have
small
,
and
but
small
tastes
of
these
spirituall
joyes
.
Hee
that
made
us
knowes
our
frame
,
and
what
is
the
fittest
proportion
both
for
our
age
,
and
measure
.
There
are
babes
in
Christ
,
and
we
seldome
give
wine
to
children
,
because
it
is
too
high
for
them
.
Besides
,
it
must
be
knowne
and
considered
,
that
Christ
Iesus
hath
some
parts
,
whose
measure
even
at
their
full
growth
is
so
small
,
as
the
infancy
of
other
parts
.
A
finger
in
his
full
growth
is
not
so
bigge
as
the
legge
of
an
infant
.
And
such
little
parts
may
have
lesse
feeling
of
these
joyes
,
because
of
their
littlenesse
:
and
yet
they
may
be
as
lively
as
the
greater
,
for
a
finger
liveth
as
well
as
an
arme
.
And
indeed
let
such
especially
look
that
their
life
be
sound
in
them
,
&
that
shall
they
know
by
the
actions
of
life
.
If
faith
and
love
bee
active
in
them
,
then
are
they
lively
and
living
.
For
it
is
no
other
but
the
life
of
Christ
in
them
which
makes
faith
and
love
to
bee
lively
and
operative
in
them
;
Yet
farther
if
this
matter
be
duely
weighed
,
we
shall
see
in
Gods
dispensations
a
greate
wisdome
and
equity
for
commonly
those
that
haue
the
greatest
consolations
,
haue
also
the
greatest
tribulations
.
And
the
one
are
so
ballanced
with
the
other
,
that
the
soule
is
kept
in
an
evennesse
,
the
tribulations
not
making
her
to
sinke
,
by
reason
of
the
counterpoising
consolations
,
nor
the
consolations
over
much
weighing
her
downe
into
pride
,
(
for
pride
though
seeming
to
look
upward
is
an
infernall
thing
)
because
of
the
counterballancing
tribulations
.
Wherefore
if
thou
envie
another
mans
consolations
,
why
doest
thou
not
also
envie
his
tribulations
?
If
thou
wish
to
be
rapt
with
Paul
into
the
third
heaven
,
CAP.
IX
.
A
Song
of
Loves
.
THou
hast
touched
my
soule
with
thy
spirit
,
O
most
beloved
,
and
vertue
is
gone
out
of
thee
into
me
,
and
draweth
me
to
thee
.
Thy
spirit
is
a
loadstone
of
love
,
and
where
it
toucheth
spirits
,
it
leaveth
love
,
and
this
love
makes
a
soule
to
move
to
her
beloved
,
that
touched
her
.
So
by
thee
doth
she
run
after
thee
,
O
thou
fountaine
and
rest
of
loves
:
thy
oyntments
draw
her
to
the
anoynter
,
her
loves
begin
and
end
in
thee
.
O
let
my
soule
ever
runne
this
circle
of
love
;
let
her
ever
be
tasting
of
thy
loves
,
and
ever
love
thee
by
tasting
them
.
Let
the
savour
of
thy
oyntments
,
whose
very
breath
is
love
,
be
ever
in
her
nostrills
,
that
she
may
ever
love
thee
for
that
savour
,
and
by
it
.
Give
me
the
flagons
of
the
new
wine
of
the
kingdome
,
which
may
lift
up
my
soule
above
her selfe
in
her
loves
,
and
give
her
better
loves
than
her
owne
,
where
with
to
love
him
that
is
farre
better
than
her selfe
.
Yea
let
her
drinke
plentifully
,
that
she
may
be
mounted
up
in
a
divine
extasie
above
her
carnall
and
earthy
station
;
that
she
may
forget
the
low
and
base
griefes
,
and
cares
,
and
distractions
,
of
carnall
and
worldly
love
,
and
by
an
heavenly
excesse
be
transported
into
an
heavenly
love
,
to
embrace
her
beloved
,
who
is
the
Lord
from
heaven
,
with
a
love
that
is
like
him
.
O
my
beloved
,
thou
art
most
lovely
;
even
when
I
love
thee
not
,
yet
then
art
thou
most
lovely
:
and
when
my
soule
covered
with
flesh
sees
not
thy
beauty
,
yet
then
art
thou
most
beautifull
,
and
most
worthy
to
be
beloved
.
But
then
thy
lovelinesse
is
lost
to
me
,
because
love
loves
not
,
what
it
sees
not
.
Therefore
ever
anoynt
mine
eyes
with
thine
eye-salve
,
that
my
soule
may
ever
see
thy
lovelinesse
,
and
seeing
it
to
be
most
lovely
,
love
it
with
her
best
loves
,
and
despise
a
world
of
beauties
in
comparison
of
thine
,
and
a
world
of
loves
in
comparison
of
those
loves
wherewith
shee
loveth
thee
.
Let
my
love
rest
in
nothing
short
of
thee
,
neither
let
it
be
content
meerely
to
rest
in
thee
,
but
kindle
it
,
enflame
it
,
enlarge
it
,
that
it
may
rest
largely
in
thee
.
Enlarge
the
crany
which
thy
spirit
hath
bored
through
the
flesh
into
my
spirit
,
that
I
may
largely
see
thee
,
and
so
largely
love
thee
.
Enlarge
the
arteries
and
conduit
pipes
by
which
thou
the
head
and
fountaine
of
loves
,
flowest
into
thy
members
,
that
being
abundantly
quickened
and
watered
with
the
spirit
of
love
,
I
may
abundantly
love
thee
.
And
doe
not
onely
come
much
,
but
often
into
me
,
and
let
my
spirit
often
be
one
spirit
with
thee
in
communicative
and
fruitive
unions
.
For
such
often
unions
with
thy
spirit
will
make
my
spirit
more
spirituall
;
and
the
more
spirituall
shee
is
,
the
more
will
she
love
him
who
is
a
spirit
.
Againe
,
the
more
spirituall
she
is
,
the
more
will
he
who
is
a
spirit
love
her
;
and
the
more
he
loves
her
,
the
more
will
he
visit
her
with
his
spirit
;
and
the
more
he
visits
her
,
the
more
lovely
,
and
beloved
shall
she
be
.
Wherefore
by
often
visitations
,
put
thy
owne
image
and
beauty
more
and
more
on
my
soule
,
and
then
love
thy
owne
beauty
in
my
soule
,
and
my
soule
for
thy
owne
beauty
,
which
thou
hast
put
on
her
,
and
let
my
soule
love
thee
infinitely
for
being
infinitely
more
beautifull
,
than
that
beauty
which
thou
hast
put
on
my
soule
,
and
therefore
infinitely
more
lovely
than
that
which
thou
lovest
in
my
soule
.
Wilt
thou
,
my
Lord
,
love
the
image
,
and
shall
not
the
image
much
more
love
the
patterne
?
O
thou
most
lovely
,
my
love
to
thee
should
be
farre
greater
,
than
thy
love
to
me
,
because
my
object
of
love
in
thee
,
is
infinitely
greater
than
thine
in
me
.
But
I
being
a
poore
and
narrow
creature
,
have
not
love
enough
to
love
thee
sufficiently
,
an
infinite
Creatour
;
and
indeed
there
is
no
love
but
thy
owne
sufficient
to
love
thee
,
whose
love
onely
is
equall
to
thy
lovelinesse
.
Thy
being
is
lovelinesse
it selfe
,
and
thy
being
is
love
it selfe
,
for
God
is
love
.
Come
therefore
into
me
,
O
thou
that
art
love
,
and
love
thy selfe
in
me
.
Come
into
me
,
and
by
thy
owne
most
excellent
love
,
fitly
love
thy
owne
most
excellent
lovelinesse
.
And
while
thou
lovest
thy selfe
in
my
soule
,
let
my
soule
according
to
her
measure
,
taste
and
see
,
and
love
that
love
.
Let
her
with
all
her
might
(
though
that
might
be
far
too
weake
for
this
worke
)
consent
and
approve
that
love
of
thine
,
and
on
the
torrent
of
thy
love
,
let
her
most
active
,
strongest
,
and
largest
affections
swimme
to
thee
,
O
thou
Ocean
and
unbounded
fulnesse
both
of
lovelines
and
love
.
And
thus
though
shee
cannot
make
her
owne
love
sufficient
to
love
thee
,
yet
let
her
make
thy
all-sufficient
love
her
owne
by
receiving
some
of
it
into
her
,
according
to
her
capacity
;
by
assenting
to
it
,
by
approving
&
magnifying
it
,
and
by
a
desire
to
resemble
it
,
as
much
as
a
poore
,
measured
creature
,
may
resemble
that
which
is
unmeasurable
.
It
is
thy
owne
word
,
O
thou
lover
of
soules
,
that
where
there
is
a
willing
minde
,
thou
acceptest
that
which
a
soule
hath
,
and
not
that
which
she
hath
not
.
But
Lord
,
though
that
love
which
I
have
,
attaine
not
to
that
measure
which
is
unmeasurable
,
yet
Lord
let
it
be
a
full
measure
which
thou
pourest
into
me
,
and
let
there
bee
nothing
void
in
my
heart
,
and
unfilled
with
thy
love
.
Yea
let
thy
spirit
of
love
come
so
fully
into
my
soule
,
that
it
stretch
and
enlarge
her
measure
,
and
make
her
to
grow
from
the
measure
in
which
she
is
,
unto
the
measure
in
which
shee
should
be
;
even
to
that
stature
which
is
appointed
her
in
thy
body
.
And
thus
by
fulnesse
in
a
lesse
measure
,
let
her
grow
to
a
fulnesse
in
a
greater
measure
,
growing
still
in
measure
,
and
growing
still
in
that
which
filleth
her
measure
.
Yea
let
the
measure
sometimes
be
not
onely
full
,
but
running
over
;
even
running
over
to
a
spirituall
drunkennesse
,
but
not
unto
drowning
,
for
these
extasies
and
excesses
of
love
,
shall
somewhat
advance
my
ability
of
loving
thee
.
For
when
my
understanding
,
will
and
affections
are
all
overflowne
,
overcome
,
and
amazed
,
then
shall
my
wonder
gaze
on
thee
,
and
my
very
faintings
shall
be
enflamed
toward
thee
,
and
melt
me
into
thee
.
Neyther
doth
my
soule
desire
the
pleasure
of
this
loue
,
and
Ioyes
of
thy
vnion
meerly
for
pleasure
:
But
I
desire
that
the
ioy
and
sap
of
thy
spirit
powred
into
mine
,
when
they
two
are
one
spirit
may
be
generatiue
and
fruitfull
.
Far
be
it
from
my
soule
to
loue
thee
like
an
harlot
,
and
not
like
a
wife
;
let
mee
desire
vnion
with
thee
because
I
love
thee
;
and
because
I
love
thee
let
mee
desire
to
bring
forth
fruite
vnto
thee
.
Yea
I
will
not
cease
to
cry
vnto
thee
,
Give
mee
children
or
else
I
die
.
Am
I
in
Gods
stead
to
give
the
fruit
of
the
wombe
.
For
verily
thou
art
that
God
who
giveth
the
fruite
of
the
wombe
,
both
spirituall
and
corporall
.
Give
me
therefore
children
by
this
vnion
with
thee
euen
fruites
of
thy
spirit
which
may
resemble
thee
,
And
when
thou
hast
made
mee
fruitfull
by
coming
to
mee
,
come
more
often
to
mee
be
cause
thou
hast
made
mee
fruitfull
.
It
was
the
voice
of
a
naturall
wife
long
agoe
:
Now
will
my
husband
dwell
with
me
because
I
have
borne
him
six
sons
.
Let
it
be
said
now
also
by
a
spiritual
wife
,
Now
will
my
husband
dwell
with
me
,
And
that
I
may
bring
forth
fruites
wholly
thine
,
and
not
anothers
beside
thee
,
burne
and
consume
whatsoeuer
would
grow
one
with
my
soule
besides
thee
.
Thou
art
a
burning
and
consuming
fire
,
and
the
spirit
by
which
thou
art
one
with
my
spirit
,
baptizeth
with
fire
;
O
let
the
fire
of
thy
spirit
,
so
wholly
turne
my
soule
into
spirituall
fire
,
that
the
drosse
of
the
flesh
&
the
world
being
wholly
consumed
,
shee
may
be
onely
spirituall
,
and
so
bring
forth
fruites
onely
to
thy
spirit
.
Thus
,
and
thus
saith
my
soule
to
her
beloved
,
but
when
she
saith
thus
,
her
beloved
is
not
farre
from
her
,
for
by
him
she
speakes
to
him
:
when
he
is
neare
,
his
oyntments
yeeld
their
savour
,
and
the
savour
of
his
ointments
draweth
soules
to
run
after
him
.
There
hath
beene
of
late
a
fruitive
union
,
and
such
fruitive
unions
doe
individuate
,
and
enflame
the
love
of
the
soule
to
him
,
whom
she
hath
enjoied
in
that
union
.
But
alas
the
husband
of
the
soule
is
sometimes
like
that
husband
which
is
not
at
home
,
but
is
gone
a
long
journey
.
He
is
gone
so
farre
from
me
,
as
if
hee
were
not
mine
,
yea
so
far
sometimes
,
as
if
he
were
not
at
all
.
The
summer
is
gone
from
my
soule
,
and
the
winter
is
come
;
and
the
true
olive
so
draweth
in
his
fatnesse
,
that
my
soule
though
a
branch
,
yet
doubteth
whether
there
bee
a
root
that
beareth
her
.
The
ointments
of
light
and
love
,
are
not
seene
or
felt
,
and
how
can
she
love
the
lovelinesse
that
she
sees
not
,
and
if
she
saw
it
,
how
can
she
love
it
without
love
?
In
such
a
darknesse
,
the
greatest
lovelinesse
affects
not
the
eye
,
and
in
such
a
deadnesse
there
is
no
love
wherewith
to
love
the
greatest
lovelinesse
.
The
soule
doth
not
now
taste
how
sweete
her
Lord
is
,
and
therefore
his
sweetnesse
is
to
her
as
a
thing
forgotten
,
or
a
thing
mistaken
,
or
at
best
,
as
a
thing
which
was
,
and
is
not
,
and
will
be
no
more
.
The
often
unions
that
are
passed
,
are
wholly
past
,
and
the
very
images
and
representations
of
them
,
are
neare
wholly
vanished
.
And
now
my
soule
that
will
ever
bee
a
lover
of
something
,
and
a
seeker
of
good
in
one
object
or
other
,
being
left
to
the
flesh
by
the
enchantment
of
the
flesh
,
runneth
to
the
creature
to
seeke
good
in
it
.
For
as
the
spirit
runneth
to
Christ
,
so
doth
the
flesh
to
the
creature
.
But
alas
the
dove
of
Christ
thus
flowne
from
the
Arke
in
her
thoughts
and
affections
,
findeth
no
rest
;
for
shee
is
gone
from
her
rest
,
and
how
can
she
finde
rest
,
by
going
from
rest
?
Put
forth
thy
hand
,
O
thou
lover
of
soules
,
and
take
her
in
unto
thee
,
yea
first
make
her
to
returne
to
thee
,
by
finding
her
when
she
seeks
thee
.
Seeke
her
,
O
Saviour
,
For
in
these
loves
shee
will
behold
the
pledges
of
a
love
eternall
;
in
these
joyes
of
thy
presence
,
she
will
behold
the
earnests
of
eternall
joyes
in
an
eternall
presence
;
and
for
the
sure
hope
of
these
eternall
joyes
,
she
will
patiently
endure
the
sorrowes
of
these
temporall
absences
.
Yet
let
these
temporall
absences
be
as
thornes
in
the
sides
of
my
soule
to
stirre
her
up
to
the
desire
of
that
eternall
presence
.
And
be
not
lacking
overlong
,
O
thou
life
,
and
love
,
and
guide
of
my
soule
,
but
ever
and
anon
visit
her
with
thy
presence
,
stay
her
with
thy
flagons
,
Therefore
thus
saith
my
soule
to
her
beloved
;
Come
away
my
beloved
;
and
be
as
a
Roe
on
the
tops
of
the
mountaines
.
My
life
is
hid
with
thee
my
love
;
Appeare
quickly
thou
which
art
my
life
,
that
I
may
quickly
appeare
with
thee
in
the
glorie
,
and
happines
of
a
consummate
mariage
.
Make
mee
faire
with
thy
spirit
,
and
put
the
golden
vesture
and
the
needle-worke
of
thy
manifold
graces
vpon
mee
,
and
bring
me
speedily
into
the
presence
of
the
great
King
.
Let
the
day
of
gladnes
quickly
come
wherein
both
soule
and
body
even
my
whole
selfe
may
eternally
enioy
thee
.
Come
quickly
.
Now
thou
who
knowest
the
meaning
of
the
spirit
,
give
an
answere
to
the
speaking
sighes
and
grones
of
the
spirit
.
Thou
who
hast
enflamed
the
heart
of
thy
spouse
,
to
speake
vnto
thee
in
this
silent
,
yet
lowde
language
of
ardent
desires
,
speake
againe
to
the
hart
of
thy
spouse
,
and
answer
the
desires
,
which
thou
hast
made
to
speak
vnto
thee
But
harken
;
for
hee
speaketh
:
Those
lips
speake
which
are
full
of
grace
;
and
such
lips
cannot
but
speake
grace
,
&
peace
to
his
spouse
,
to
his
beloved
.
Hearken
therefore
and
heare
what
he
saith
;
Beholde
,
I
come
quickly
.
Come
,
so
now
will
she
still
say
,
Amen
;
and
Even
so
come
Lord
Iesus
,
Amen
,
and
Amen
.
FINIS
.