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Centuries Of Meditations by Thomas Traherne

77 Hearken, O Daughter

Hearken, O Daughter, and consider and incline thine ear, forget also Mine own people and thy father's house. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, for He is thy Lord, and worship thou Him. The King's daughter is all glorious within, her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework, the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto Thee. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought, they shall enter into the King's Palace. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the Earth. The psalmist here singeth an Epithalamium upon the marriage between Christ and His Church: whom he persuadeth to forsake her country and her father's house together with all the customs and vanities of this World: and to dedicate herself wholly to our Saviour's Service. Since she is in exchange to enter into His palace, and become a bride to so glorious a person. The Bridegroom and the Bride, the Palace (which is all the world) with all that is therein, being David's joy and his true possession. Nay every child of this Bride is if a male, a Prince over all the earth; if a female, Bride to the King of Heaven. And every Soul that is a spouse of Jesus Christ, esteemeth all the Saints her own children and her own bowels.
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