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Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon
Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon by James Durham ...
Edinburgh: printed by George Swintoun and James Glen, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.
GOD being the immortal souls chief good, it must needs follow, that what unites the soul unto God, must be the souls chief Ornament and Grace: And such is Love, that Principium uniens, or principle uniting the soul unto God: Whence it is, that even in good, spiritual and elevated reason, the Apostle prefers Love among the souls three cardinal virtues, 1 Cor▪ 13. 13. And now abideth faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is Love. Indeed Faith, going out from the sinner to rest upon Jesus Christ the Justifier ⟨image 3⟩of the ungodly, And there is no sinner nor unclean thing in Heaven; and Hope, looking unto, and after, a Country that we are not yet possessors of; and Love, yea, love alone filling Heaven unto all eternity, it is certain that Love is the souls most adorning Ornament, its most Heavenly frame.
Now of all Books in Holy Scripture, it hath pleased the Holy Ghost to entitle the Song of Solomon, or His Book of Loves, thus, [Greek or Hebrew], the Song of Songs: All Songs, all Loves, all outgoings of the soul being invaluable to this Souls-Song, and Love, uniting Christ and the soul.
Now of all Books in Holy Scripture, it hath pleas'd the Holy Ghost to entitle the Song of Solomon, or His Book of Loves, thus, , the Song of Songs: All Songs, all Loves, all outgoings of the soul being invaluable to this Souls-Song, and Love, uniting Christ and the soul.