Song of Songs 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved knocks: "Open the door for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my hair with the drops of the night."
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Union and Communion ·
Section IV cites Cant. v. 2
Communion again Broken—Restoration Cant. v. 2-vi.10. The fourth section commences with an address of the bride to the daughters of…
- All Things for Good ·
The worst things work for good to the godly cites Cant. v. 2
…cures the soul of sloth. We find the spouse fallen upon the bed of sloth: “I sleep” (Cant. v. 2). And presently Christ was gone. “My beloved had withdrawn himself” (Cant. v. 6). Who…
- Union and Communion ·
Section VI cites Cant. v. 2
…of service, fearless of dens of lions and mountains of leopards. The fourth section (Cant. v. 2-vi. 10), however, shows again failure; not as before through worldliness, but rather…
- The Bruised Reed ·
Grace is mingled with Corruption cites Cant. v. 2
…Jesus Christ our Lord. I sleep, saith the Church in the Canticles, but my heart wakes, Cant. v. 2. In the seven Churches, which for their light are called seven golden candlesticks, Rev.…
- The Mortification of Sin in Believers ·
When the heart is disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it cites Cant. v. 2
…his lips are opened to them and are full of grace. The spouse was in a sad condition, Cant. v. 2, — asleep in security; but yet as soon as Christ speaks, she cries, “It is the voice of…