...wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor. Again, Solomon saith, A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse. A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thus, it appears from the testimony before us, that tlie church of Christ is a walled city, and we...

...Christ and * Parkhurst. VOL. I. L his church. " A garden inclosed," says our Lord to his church, " is my sister, my spouse ; a spring shut up, a fountain...an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camplaire (margin, cypress) with spikenard ; spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all...

...honey and milk are under thy tongue ; atfd the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. 12 s the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, thro 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 14 Spikenard...

...12 A garden t inclosed is my sister, my spouse ; a spring tH*.**™*. shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits •, •£ camphire, with spikenard. t or, cmna. 14 Spikenard and saSron ; calamus and cinnamon, with ch' '' ' all trees of /rani incense...

...them. They are his garden ; the rest of the world a wilderness ; Cant. iv. 12. ' A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.' They are his inheritance, the rest, his enemies of no regard with him. So Isa. xliii. 3, 4. ' I am...

...to His will Prove the best of tokens still. THE CHURCH IN HER BEAUTY AND PURITY. " A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse ; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." — Solomon's Song, iv. 12. DELIGHTFUL emblems, in whose guise is shown Thy church, O Lord, from spot...

...Cant^ iv. 12, to refer to this usage, it would give them additional precision. «« A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse ; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." They would express the bridegroom's public declaration of the virgin purity of his bride. The whole...

...of Isiael seems evidently to personate Christ. Speaking of human nature wh«n he says, Song 4. 12, "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse ; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." ' Compare this sealed fountain with what God said to Job Chap. 38. 14. " It is tuined as clay to the...

...undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her." " A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." And in another place, " The voice of my beloved! Behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping...

...when thus filled, is a fountain sealed, until the seal opens, and lets it forth. " A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed," Songiv. 12. But, when the. Spirit opens the heart, it plays all its streams into the fountain of divine...