THE BOOK OF JOB shows the godly man without law in nature, learning what he is in that nature, though a model man in amiability, when he comes near God.
THE BOOK OF PSALMS is the godly man under law, and with the sense of how grievous transgression is, seeking to rise up from his low estate into nearness with God.
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS is the godly man learning wisdom.
THE SONG OF SOLOMON (Canticles) is the heart searching after that rest which can only satisfy true love.
You have the conscience seeking its rest in the Psalms, and the heart in Solomon's Song. Hence, neither of these two books properly applies to us, as Christians. For, as such, our conscience is fully at rest, and we are in the relationship of children in the Father's house. Our heart is at rest as already united to Christ by the Spirit, bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh. "We are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." Eph. 5:3030For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (Ephesians 5:30).
The earthly Queen, Israel, whose history is presented to us in Solomon's Song, has not yet reached her rest. She comes from earth, and necessarily cannot be Queen at rest until there is a visible King. "The Bride, the Lamb's wife," comes from God; she is never a Queen, and Christ is not the King in His relationship to her. He is King to the earthly Queen. The Church is the Eve, if you will, of the second Adam, for the Paradise of God.
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