| John Flavel - Conversion - 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
...power. " He looketh upon men, and if any," etc. etc. EXTRACTS "A SCRIPTURE PLACE BOOK, FOR DAILY USE." " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." '* He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love." — SOL. SONG, ii. 3, 4.... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Williams - Bible - 1801 - 366 pages
...vallies. BRIDEGROOM. 2 As a lily among thorns, So is my consort among the daughters. SPOUSE. 3 As a citron tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. In his shade I delighted and sat down, And his fruit was sweet unto my taste. 4 He brought me into... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 522 pages
...the Lord is good ! Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psal. xxxiv. 8. SEKMON I. CANT. ii. 3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so...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... | |
| Thomas Williams - Bible - 1803 - 368 pages
...BRIDEGROOM. 2 As a lily among thorns, So is my consort among the daughters. SPOUSE. 3 As a citron t*ee among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. In his shade I delighted and sat down, And his fruit was sweet unto my taste. 4 He brought me into... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
...places in- the Old Testament, and its fruit in two or three more. Solomon sings, — " As the appletree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons." And again, — "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples." The noblest part of man's noblest feature... | |
| Samuel Burder - Bible - 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... | |
| Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...language to his espoused. And what shall I say unto thee, O my king and my God ! as the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons : thou art superlatively excellent ; my beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...[and] the lily of the values. As 2 i the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daugh3 ters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so...beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with 4 great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and... | |
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