Excerpt from The Flourish of the Annual Spring: Improved in a Sermon Preached at the Thursday Lecture in Boston, May 3, 1739

- Rise up - and come away. For lo, the Winter is past, the Rain is over and gone. The Flowers appear on the Earth, the Time of the singing of Birds is come - arise - and come away.

Of all meer and Men who have lived since the Fall of Adam, the Author of this beautiful Passage is pronounced the wisest, by the God of Heaven. And of all the Books which he wrote, this is the most elegant, sublime and devout. The three Books which Solomon wrote, are resembled to the three divisions of the Temple which he built, of which the Holy of Holies is compared to this admirable Song. His Proverbs contain an excellent Scheme of Morality, and to this answers the outward Enclosure, called the Court of the Gentiles. His Ecclesiastes contains the Disquisitions of a philosophical and religious Genius after true Happiness, and the solemn Reflections and pious Arguments render it a holy Place. But this Divine song is all consecrated Rapture, 'tis the Holy of Holies: It must be approached with Reverence and Trembling, and it admits of no unhallowed Feet to tread its awful Recesses.

The Title of the Book is, The Song of Songs, and it well deserves the Name, for it is the finest poetical Composure now extant in the World. It is not every where over-nice and exact in its Metaphers and Allusions, but they are bold and grand, elevated and lofty, all Fire, all consecrated Rapture and Inspiration!

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