| Henry Blunt - 1839 - 360 pages
...produces those exercises of faith and love so often referred to by the church of old, when she says, " By night on my bed I sought Him whom my soul loveth ; I sought Him, but I found Him not ;"— those mourning exercises, the most painful, but perhaps amongst the most profitable of the Christian... | |
| Francis Quarles - 1839 - 430 pages
...//lv(' Trinn . BOOK IV.— EMBLEM XL CANTICLES iii. 2. / wiil rise and go about the city, and will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not. О HOW my disappointed soul's perplext ! How restless thoughts swarm in ray troubled breast ! How vainly... | |
| John Owen - 1839 - 616 pages
...found him not. I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth; I sought him but I found him not.' Chap. v. 6. 'I opened lo my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone ; my soul failed... | |
| Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - 1839 - 410 pages
...he says in the Song of Songs, On my bed I sought Him whom Cant. 3, my soul loveth ; at what time ? By night on my bed I sought ' Him whom my soul loveth; (Mary, it is said, came while it John 20, was yet dark ;) On my bed I sought Him by night; I sought\'... | |
| 1839 - 1060 pages
...sometimes CHAP. III. 1 The church's fight and victory in temptation. 6 The church glorieth in Christ. ly mountains. •2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion 1 sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in... | |
| 1840 - 870 pages
...Ckritt. BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul lovetli: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 d the LORD looked upon him, and Eaid, Go in this thy might, and thou shatt 1 will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about... | |
| Thomas Manton - 1840 - 478 pages
...virgins, they knocked, and it was not opened to them (Matt. xxv. 8). So the church seeketh Christ, ' By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, and found him not' (Cant. iii. 1). How, then, can these words of Christ be made good ?" I shall answer,... | |
| Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...more natural than the exercises of the church, in this respect, as described in the Song of Songs. ' earnestly desiring communion with him. 'I will rise now and go about the city; in the streets and in... | |
| Gottfried Daniel Krummacher - 1841 - 300 pages
...him not. I will rise now, and go about the city ; in the streets and in the broad ways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me : to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth ? It... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1841 - 306 pages
...him not. I will rise now, and go about the city ; in the streets, and in the broad ways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth ; I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me : to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth ? It... | |
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