{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030420.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030420.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030420.htm","text":"6. If this Queen ye see not, now rich also with royal progeny. If she see not that fulfilled which she heard to have been promised, she, unto whom it was said, \u201cHear, O daughter, and see.\u201d If she hath not left the ancient rites of the world, she, unto whom it was said, \u201cForget thy own people and thy Father\u2019s house.\u201d If she confesses not every where Christ the Lord, she, unto whom it was said, \u201cThe King hath desired thy beauty, for He is the Lord thy God.\u201d If she sees not the cities of the nations pour forth prayers and offer gifts unto Christ, concerning Whom it was said unto her, \u201cThere shall worship Him the daughters of Tyre with gifts.\u201d If the pride also of the rich is not laid aside, and they do not entreat help of the Church, unto whom it was said, \u201cThy face shall all the rich of the people entreat.\u201d If He acknowledges not the King\u2019s daughter, unto Whom she was bidden to say, \u201cOur Father Who art in Heaven;\u201d 1664 and in her saints in the inner man she is not renewed from day to day, concerning whom it was said, \u201cAll the glory of that King\u2019s daughter is within:\u201d although she strike upon the eyes of them also that are without with the blaze 1665 of the fame of her preachers, in diversity of tongues, as \u201cin fringes of gold, and raiment of divers colors.\u201d If there be not, now that His fame is spread abroad in every place by His good odor, 1666 virgins also brought unto Christ to be consecrated, of Whom it is said, and to Whom it is said, \u201cThere shall be brought unto the King the virgins after her, her companions shall be brought unto Thee.\u201d And that they might not seem to be brought like captives, into some, as it were, prison, he says, \u201cThey shall be brought in joy and gladness, they shall be brought into the King\u2019s temple.\u201d If she brings not forth sons, that of them she may have, as it were, fathers, whom she may appoint unto herself every where as rulers, she, unto whom it is said, \u201cInstead of thy fathers there are born unto thee sons, thou shall set them as princes over the whole earth:\u201d unto whose prayers their mother both preferred and made subject, commends herself, \u201cThey shall be mindful of thy name, even from generation to generation.\u201d If, by reason of the preaching of those same fathers, wherein they have without ceasing made mention of her name, there are not so great multitudes in her gathered together, and without end in their own tongues unto her confess the praise of grace, unto whom it is said, \u201cTherefore shall the people confess unto thee for ever, and for ever and ever.\u201d If these things are not so shown to be clear, as that the eyes of enemies find not in what direction to turn aside, where the same clearness strikes them not, so as by it to be obliged to confess what is evident: you perhaps assert with reason, that no proofs are shown to you, by seeing which you may believe those things also which you see not. But if those things, which you see, both have been foretold long before, and are so clearly fulfilled; if the truth itself makes itself clear to you, by effects 1667 going before and following after, O remnant of unbelief, that ye may believe the things which you see not, blush at those things which ye see.\nBen. conj. \u201cfulgente,\u201d for \u201cfulgentes.\u201d\n340:1666 340:1667\nThe Prophecy might be called an \u201ceffect\u201d as well as its fulfillment; or read \u201cverbis,\u201d for \u201cvobis,\u201d \u201cclear by words going before and effects following after.\u201d For further illustration see St. Aug. on Ps. 45.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Doctrinal Treat...","type":"page"}