...beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our bed is green. The beams of our house are cedar, And our rafters of fir. I AM the rose of Sharon, And the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the...

...xi. 10. 2 i St Peter i. 4. 3 Psalm xxiii. 6. Compare St John xiv. 2. 3. CHAP. 1 CHAP. IT. VER. 1. — I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. • HEUE is an elegant, and what may be called a ' florid ' description, and in language that carries...

...beams of our house are cedar, and our * rafters AC 1001. of fir. •Or,gatlcria. SONG OF SOLOMON 11. 1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. 2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. 3 As the apple tree among the trees...

...pleasant : also our bed ы green. 17 The beams of our house arc cedar, and our raflers of fir. CHAP. II. unted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he t I As the lily among thorn», so is my love among the daughters. A3 As the apple-tree among the trees...

...such is the mutual entertainment of Christ and his saints in that communion. • Cant. ii. 1 — 7. ' I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters : as the apple-tree among the trees...

...pleasant : also our bed is green. 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our raftors of fir. CHAP. II. e sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold ; th 2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. 3 As the apple-tree among the trees...

...are greatly indebted to Solomon's song. "Thou art all fair,; there is no spot on thee." Chap, vi. 7. "I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys," &c. Chap. ii. 1. " My beloved is white and ruddy." v. 10. The lines in the 12th canto of book i. —...

...me, as those that treated of these subjects. Those words Cant. ii. 1. used to be abundantly with me, I am the Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the valleys. The words seemed to me, sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ. The whole book...

...intermission or alloy through all eternity.] DCCCXLIX. THE CHURCH'S FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST. Cant. ii. 1 — 3. I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple-tree among the trees of the...

...his purity, his meekness, his loveliness, and " the savour of his knowledge :'' therefore, says he, " I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." Secondly, as emblems of Christians. In all things he must have the pre-eminence, but his people are...