...simply increased privilege in the form of rest or repose, but still closer intimacy and familiarity: " He brought me to the banqueting-house, and His banner over me was love. . . His left hand is under my head, and His right hand doth embrace me." Eeader, it is one thing to...

...brave, my pious Joel! As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so was my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. A wise son makes a glad father, and shall I not rejoice that mine who was ever wise upon earth, is...

...brave, my pious Joel ! As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so was my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. A wise son makes a glad father, and shall I not rejoice that mine who was ever wise upon earth, is...

...shall they that trust in him be desolate. There are seasons in a good roan's life •when he can say, I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste; but there is none in which God leaves himself without a witness, and in which piety seeks his shade...

...trust in him be desolate. There are seasons in a good man's life when he can say, I sat down uader his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste ; but there is none in which God leaves himself without a witness, and in which piety seeks his shade...

...•wine, in Arabic. The King "brought us to the banqueting house, and his banner over us was love. We sat under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to our taste. In conclusion we sung the 13th hymn of the 3d book of Watts, containing the lines — "Why...

...greatness of the end it will accomplish.—It is a beautiful expression used by the church of Christ, " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste*." It gives the idea of a person not only resting in perfect safety, but in the most pleasing circumstances,—reposing...

...clothed with leaves of the richest gieen. Well might the spouse, applying this figure, exclaim, " I sat under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." The fragrancy, too, of this tree and its fruit, is admirable ; hence the nose, or breath, of the spouse,...

...church of old : " As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons : I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet unto my taste." Sol. Song ii. 3. Therefore the weakest believer in the covenant of grace, who has but...

...apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down (or delighted and sat down) under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet, &c. 1 am sick of love. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me, &c. O my...