...keeping, and will not resign him. " The coals thereof," we read further, with regard to this love, " are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame...give all the substance of his house for love it would be utterly contemned."— Such is the love of Christ to his Church — so fervent, so strong, so enduring,...

...or symbol of love, Solomon's Song, viii. 6. " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thy arm : for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel...are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame" Natural fire or heat constitutes natural and animal life, which corresponds by analogy to spiritual...

...[marg. : hard] as uro coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7. Jinny waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would...his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. winter is now past, and the rain is away and gone. The flowers are come up in the field, the twystynge...

...belongs abstractly to love. Hence love and jealousy are used conjointly in the cut. viii. c. Canticles, " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon...grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." This...

...apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she brought thee forth that bare thee. Bride. — Set me as a seal upon thine heart; as a seal -upon...his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Chorus. — We have a little sister and she hath no breasts, what shall we do for our sister in the...

...utmost impatience of his absence, with desires still of nearer communion with him.' Chap. viii. 6, " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon...coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." The allusion is doubtless from the high priest of the Jews, in bis spi1 ".ffiternitatem temporis jnxta...

...the words, the smiles, the frowns, the reproaches, nor threatenings of the world : Song viii. 6, 7, " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon...the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give...

...perishable out of him, but in him complete and eternal. It is of this divine love that Solomon says : " Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the...flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the flood drown it : if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly...

...souls. It is a glorious pitch that the spouse rises to in Cant. viii. 7, " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would...his house for love, it would utterly be contemned ; " speaking of her own love to Christ : nothing could quench, nothing could drown it, nothing could...

...guest in her bosom — from that night, she felt in her heart the truth of this Scripture passage, " Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the...coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." CHAPTER II. "Vain tears are very apt to breed pride." Frivolous and heartless as Margaret Dorrance...