For now meanwhile thou standest outside the
door: but God grant that you all may say, The King hath
brought me into His chamber Cant. i.
4.. Let my soul
rejoice in the Lord: for He hath clothed me with a garment of
salvation, and a robe of gladness: He hath crowned me with a
garland as a bridegroom Is. lxi. 10. Compare Cant.
iii. 11: Go
forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon, with the crown
wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his
espousals. In the passage of Isaiah the bridegroom’s
crown is likened to the priestly mitre., and decked me
with ornaments as a bride: that the soul of every one of you
may be found not having spot or wrinkle or any such
thing Eph. v. 27.; I do not mean before
you have received the grace, for how could that be? since it is for
remission of sins that ye have been called; but that, when the grace is
to be given, your conscience being found uncondemned may concur with
the grace.