comparisons, and similitudes, and in the abundance of the spirit utter mysteries and secrets rather than explain themselves in intelligible words. And if these similitudes be not received in the simplicity of a loving mind, and in the sense in which they are uttered, they will seem to be effusions of folly rather than of reason; as any one may see in the Divine Canticle of Solomon, and in others of the Sacred Books, wherein the Holy Ghost, because of the incapacity of ordinary language to convey