As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. The Andover Review - Page 5771885Full view - About this book
| 1611 - 360 pages
...among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And...me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples : For I am sick of love. His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.... | |
| John Flavel - 1689 - 412 pages
...hearken to thy voice; cause me to hear it;" so communion with Christ is the delight of his people : " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." Sol. Song 2: 14; 8:13; 2:3. It is the pleasure of Christ to see the earnest countenances, the blushing... | |
| Sarah Martin - 1799 - 152 pages
...searched : truly her delight was in the law of the Lord, and in his law did she meditate day and night. " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste : " " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver," are the texts which... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...there a feast of fat things full of marrow, and can say, with the spouse in the Canticles, " I sat under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." 6. We may remark that, when Christ is compared to food, it intimates the constancy with which believers... | |
| William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...SEKMON I. CANT. ii. 3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. AMONG all the metaphors whereby the wisdom of God hath seen fit to set forth the excellency and commodiousness... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pages
...amber, but of very strong 1mell." Complete System, of Geography, vol. ii. p. 175. No. 221. — ii. 3. / sat down under his shadow with, great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.'] " Shade, accordingto Mr. Wood, in his description of the ruins of Balbec (p. 5.) is an essential article... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with 4 great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste....banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love. 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples : for I [am] 6 sick of love. His left hand [is] under... | |
| 1836 - 498 pages
...the house of God, and at the table of the Lord, how frequently has the believer had cause to say, " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." The design of the transfiguration was to give the disciples a bright representation of the glory of... | |
| James Fisher - 1806 - 352 pages
...ever, Isa. Iv. 1. Matt. xi. 28. 2 Cor. v. 2o. John iii. 16. O that I may then say from experience, " I sat down under his shadow with " great delight, and his fruit was sweet to " my taste," Cant. ii. 3. While I am pressing through this thicket, I perceive a timorous hare, alarmed for her... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1806 - 338 pages
...Fear not ; I am the firft and the laft. . y Song ii. 4, 5, He brought me to the banqueting houfe.and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples ; for I am Cck of love. z 1 Cor. vii. 10, For godly forrow worketh repentance unto falvation,... | |
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