Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon

2. In this Song the Church is not only considered as invisible, and unite by true faith to Christ; but also as visible, and as under external Ordinances, as hath been said; and in that respect, it furnishes Doctrines fit for all.

3. This Song will furnish Doctrines useful for these, as other Parables or Allegories of that kind do, which Christ used often even for the edification of such.

4. Doctrines from all places of Scripture, may be raised by analogy; as from such places, where God holdeth forth the way he useth with his own, when they have wronged him by sin, which ⟨p. 38⟩is to humble them and bring them to Repentance, ere they see his face again, sin becomes bitter even to them: From such places, I say, we may gather by proportion, that God's way with unrenewed sinners, whom he minds to bring to peace and friendship with himself, is to humble them, and make sin bitter to them, seeing the recovering of peace, and the first founding of peace, as to this, is brought about after the same manner.

4. Doctrines from all places of Scripture, may be raised by analogy; as from such places, where God holdeth forth the way he useth with his own, when they have wronged him by sin, which ⟨p. 38⟩is to humble them and bring them to Repentance, ere they see his face again, sin becomes bitter even to them: From such places, I say, we may gather by proportion, that God's way with unrenewed sinners, whom he minds to bring to peace and friendship with himself, is to humble them, and make sin bitter to them, seing the recovering of peace, and the first founding of peace, as to this, is brought about after the same manner.