Again, the Lord delights in the graces of His saint. He rests, with the love of complacency, in the believer who walks in the Spirit before Him. John xv. 10. She is an enclosed garden under His eye, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. As we read, the Spirit is in him, a well of water springing up into everlasting life. He has the savour of the spices, and the flowings of the living water, _in himself_, and the fragrancy and freshness of these gladden his Lord anew. This is the teaching of the Gospel, and this is the language of Christ in the Canticles. He delights in what is _in us_ through the Spirit, as well as in what is _on_ us through faith. He has His joy in the places of communion with His elect here, as in the heaven to which He has ascended. This is largely told us in Scripture. "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father’s house, _so_ shall the King greatly desire thy beauty; for He is thy Lord, and worship thou Him." Psalm xlv. Here is something beyond _imputed_ beauty. For here we learn the grace in her which kindles His desire. She has forgotten her own people and her father’s house, so the King desires her. And she owns Him as Lord, and worships Him. She will render Him affection and homage. And all of this suited and attractive grace was shown in Rebecca. _She left all for Isaac._ She forgot her own people and her father’s house, and came across an unknown desert in company with a stranger, in the singleness and devotedness of an undivided heart. And on reaching him for whom she had consented to all this, _she lights from her beast, and veils herself_. She puts on the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. She arrays herself in shamefacedness and sobriety. She loves, and yet bows. And _so_ Isaac desires her. And so is the Church to be _subject_ to Christ, and yet _love_ Him with virgin love. Eph. v.; 2 Cor. xi. 2.³³ ³³ Affection begets confidence. Rebecca committed herself to Eliezer, _never asking her father or brother for an escort_. So the more singly we love Jesus, the more confidently will our souls trust Him and His supplies for us alone, without confidence in the flesh or anything else.