the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Consecration
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
or Travelers have said that they have discovered gardens of Solomon, which were of old enclosed as private places wherein the king walked in solitude; and they have also found wells of a most deliciously cold water, dexterously covered, so that no person unacquainted with the stone in the wall, which either revolved or slid away with a touch, could have found the entrance to the spring. At the foot of some lofty range of mountains a reservoir received the cooling streams which flowed from melted snows; this reservoir was carefully guarded and shut out from all common entrance, in order that the king alone might enter there, and might refresh himself' during the scorching heats. Such is the Christian's heart. It is a spring shut up, a fountain sealed, a garden reserved for Jesus only. O come, Great King, and enjoy thy possessions!
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Consecration'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fff/c/consecration.html. 1870.
