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

4. It may be also, that Solomon after his recovery, did never recover his former lustre, nor attain to such a profitable way of appearing in God's public matters, for which formerly he had been so observable: For so it is taken notice even of David, after his fall, that his following life is stained, as different from what went before; therefore it is the commendation of Jehoshaphat, 1 Chron. 17. 3. that he walked in the first ways of his father David, which certainly, is not done to condemn David's state after that time, but to leave that mark (as a chastisement) on his failings: And seeing Solomon's were greater, therefore may this silence of his recovery, be more universal as to him.

4. It may be also, that Solomon after his recovery, did never recover his former lustre, nor attain to such a profitable way of appearing in God's publike matters, for which formerly he had been so observable: For so it is taken notice even of David, after his fall, that his following life is stained, as different from what went before; therefore it is the commendation of Iehoshaphat, 1 Chron. 17. 3. that he walked in the first wayes of his father David, which certainly, is not done to condemn David's state after that time, but to leave that mark (as a chastisement) on his failings: And seing Solomon's were greater, therefore may this silence of his recovery, be more universal as to him.

Before we draw any thing from this, by way of use, I shall answer a doubt, and it is this, How can all these thousand and five Songs, mentioned, 1 King. 4. 32. be lost, without wronging the perfection of Canonic Scripture? Or, what is come of them? Or, what is to be accounted of the loss of them?

Before we draw any thing from this, by way of use, I shall answer a doubt, and it is this, How can all these thousand and five Songs, mentioned,