...sheep, who hear his voice, and follow him. " I held him and would not let him go, (said the church,) until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me." In that chamber of his leadings and dealings with me, it is sweet conversing. " His way have I kept."...

...duly blend : But keep it pure with Fast and Prayer, Come early near, and lowly bend. 8. EASTER-DAY. " I found Him whom my soul loveth; I held Him, and would not let Him go." 'TwAS at the matin hour, early before the dawn, The prison-doors flew open, the bolts of death were...

...not 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me : To whom I said. Saw yc him whom my soul lovelb? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, But I found him whom my eoul loveth : I held him, and would not let him go, Until I liad brought him into my mother's house....

...be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." April 26. 1842. SERMON XX. « It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soulloveth; I held him* and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and...

...passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and harts of the fields, that you stir...

...expressions of joy upon finding him ; as the church in the above case ; It teas but little, says she, that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth ; I held him, and would not let ¡,im go : and in the other case how does she exult in the close of her account, upon finding him ;...

...sacrament — which she described as a "trysting place" for Christ and her soul — that "on this occasion I found him whom my soul loveth, I held him and would not let him go." Also Elisabeth West gave forceful expression to this nuptial piety when she described her sacramental...

...risen Christ draws on the Matthaean and Johannine texts (cf. Man. 28. 96, John 20: i7). Song 3: 46 ('I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house .. .') is moved from the third person into the second ('I will not let you go . . .') and the phrase...

...Christ; " I found him whom my soul loveth." II. The place or time, where or when sho fonnd him ; " It was but a little that I passed, from them, but I found," &c. HI. Her behaviour towards him ; " I held him," ir. 1. The church gives an account of her finding...

...not. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? It was but a little that I passed from them, but I...house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. In this first dream (even though the words dream or sleep are not used here, this is accepted as a...