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

Her great wish is, Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. That it's the Bride that speaks, is clear; She begins, not because love ariseth first on her side (for here she begins, as having already closed with him, and therefore she speaks to him, as one who knows his worth, and longs for the out-lettings of his love) but because such expressions of Christs love, as are to be found in this Song, whereby his complacency is vented and manifested towards us, doth first presuppose the working of love in us, and our exercising of it on him, and then his delighting (that is, his expressing his delight) in us: For although the man first suit the wife (and so Christ first sueth for his Bride) yet when persons are married, it's most suitable, that the wife should very pressingly long for, and express desire after the husband, even as the Bride doth here after Christ's kisses, and the expressions of his love. Of this order of Christ's love, see Chap. 8. Vers. 10.

Her great wish is, Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth. That it's the Bride that speaks, is clear; She begins, not because love ariseth first on her side (for here she begins, as having already closed with him, and therefore she speaks to him, as one who knows his worth, and longs for the out-lettings of his love) but because such expressions of Christs love, as are to be found in this Song, whereby his complacency is vented and manifested towards us, doth first presuppose the working of love in us, and our exercising of it on him, and then his delighting (that is, his expressing his delight) in us: For although the man first suit the wife (and so Christ first sueth for his Bride) yet when persons are married, it's most suitable, that the wife should very pressingly long for, and expresse desire after the husband, even as the Bride doth here after Christ's kisses, and the expressions of his love. Of this order of Christ's love, see Chap. 8. Vers. 10.

In the words, consider 1. what she desires, and that is, the kisses of his mouth. 2. How she points Christ forth, by this significant demonstrative, Him. 3. Her abrupt manner of breaking out with this her desire, as one that had been dwelling on the thoughts of Christ, and feeding on his excellency; and therefore now she breaks out, Let him kiss me, &c. as if her heart were at her mouth, or would leap out of her mouth, to meet with his.