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

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.

5. From such places, as speak directly Christs special love to Believers, there may be drawn good uses and applications to others; partly, to engage them to him, who so loves his own; partly, to terrify these who are not his, by their being debarred from any right to such excellent privileges.