...condescend to "dwell in you, and walk in you/'}; there may be nothing to offend him. And " take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes. "§ Let no enemy be spared, whether great, or small ; and " abstain from all appeacance of evil. "||...

...countenance, let me hear thy voice ; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us / t 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his : he feedeth among the lilies. 17 Until the day break, and the...

...allusion to his eager desire to the fruit of the vine,0 it is said in the Song of Solomon, " Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." In Scripture, the church is often compared to m Bochart. Hieroz. lib. iii, p. 849. Aristotel. Politicor....

...countenance, let me hear thy voice ; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines : for our vines, have tender grapes. 16 ^cMy beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth c ch. vi. 3. & amoflg the lilies. vU lo 17 d Until...

...countenance, let me hear thy voice ; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance u comely. la Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. 16 1i My beloved it mine, and I am his : he feedeth among the lilies. 17 Until the day break, and the...

...himself applies to them the epithet, little ones. Hence says the royal preacher, Take us the Ibxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes. This is evidently a caution against every thing, however plausible, which tends to hinder the prosperity...

...Little things blight the fairest prospects of Man. SOLOMON'S SONG ii. 15. — Take us the foxes, thd little foxes, that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes. 85 SERMON VIII. .Mnii, admonished ofhii duly by inferiour creatures. PAGE PROVERBS vi. 6 — Go to...

...animadversion ; yet nothing should be deemed so that is important to christian prosperity. However, I will wave noticing them for the present; only saying, that at...high and momentous destinies of the immortal soul! " Loss. — Great loss of spiritual comfort. This is supposed in the very argument : for soul-lethargy...

...stand against these insidious proceedings ; we must take heed to the thin end of the wedge. " Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines : for our vines have tender grapes." And so we gladly close our unwelcome task, which nothing but a sense of duty to the truth of God, and...

...327. 4 Vide Theocrit. Idyll. i. 48; Varr. de Re Rust. i. viii.; Solomon's Song, c. ii. 15, " Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines : for our vines have tender grapes." hand of Diopeithes.i But I have another winged oracle which relates to you, " that you shall become...