Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUMMARY OF THE SONG. This Book consists of three parts: The first includes chapter i. verse 1; chapter ii. verse 7. The second extends from chapter ii. verse 8, to chapter vii. verse 9. The third includes the remainder of the book, chapter vii. verse 10, to chapter viii. verse 14. I. The way in which the soul longing for the manifestation of the love of Christ is led along in the gratification of that desire, from one degree to another of pious enjoyment, until attaining the greatest delight possible for the saint in the present world. Chap. i. 1; chap. ii. 7. These periods of enjoyment are separated by vicissitudes of fortune and diversity of feeling, through which the believer is brought to those more cheering scenes in his progress to heaven. These seasons may be repeated in our experience, some of them more than once, before we attain those which succeed. 1. We enjoy the love of Jesus, as manifested in private communion, in his chambers. Chap. i. 4. 2. In the way of duty and self-denial. Chap. i. 7?11. 3. In sitting with the King in the circle of his friends, and enjoying, as one of them, the delights of social communion with him. Chap. i. 12?14. 4. In delightful repose with him amid enlarged prospects of spiritual beauty. Chap. i. 15?17. 5. In the protection and delights set forth in chap. ii. 1?3. 6. And in enjoying, at last, the pleasures mentioned in chap. ii. 4?7, the greatest possible on earth. II. An exhibition of motives by which the Lord Jesus would allure such soul away from the present world, for being with him in glory. Chap. ii. 8; chap. vii. 9. As we are treated throughout our redemption and discipline here, like beings possessing a will, the spiritual decays and sluggishness into which we are liable to fall, must be counteracted by the pre...