...it. Though the present comforts of the saints are sometimes as much as they can bear, for they say, " Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples ; for I am sick of lovB," Sol. Song 2:5; yet these high tides of joy are but shallows, compared with the joys of his...

...Tides of Paffion, we fhould not only be forc'd to cry out with the Amorous Spoufe in the Canticles, Stay me with Flagons, Comfort me with Apples, for I am Sick of Levc, but (hould even really Expire and Die ; the difproportionate and too prevailing force of the...

...was my only banner, whereby I was both drawn to him, directed by him, and fastened upon him. II. 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples : for I am sick of love. And now, O ye faithful Evangelists, Apostles, Teachers, apply unto me, with all care and diligence,...

...unto my heart; for I am even overcome with a longing expectation and desire of my delayed glory. II. 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. II. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. And while I am thus...

...St John xv. 13. S Rom. v. 8. . but seemingly incoherent ejaculation in the next verse ! VfiR. 5 — Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples ; for I am sick of love. Nothing is more usual in the rapturous effusions of sacred antiquity, than such abrupt transitions...

...teas sweet to my taste. 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me ivas love 5 p hence, thou and the people which thdti hast of love. 6 His left hand w under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. 7 1 charge vou, O ye...

...Holy Ghost, that his spiritual faculties are all on the wing, even so as to cry out with the church, " Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love."* And it is not impossible that the very next hour such a train of irregular thoughts rushes...

...he hronght me into the hanqueting house, and his hauner over me was love ; then I could truly say ' Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.' Oh ! that a sense of Christ's unspeakahle love may have a sanctifying influence upon my soul...

...tell him, that I am sick of love ;" or else from the fullness of it, as in that case, Cant. ii. 5. " Stay- me with flagons, comfort me with apples ; for I am sick of love." These glowings of affections are usually wrought in young converts, who are ordinarily made...

...tell him, that I am sick of love ;" or else from the fullness of it, as in that case, Cant. ii. 5. " Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples ; for I am sick of love." These glowings of affections are usually wroaght in young converts, who are ordinarily made...