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

Vers. 4. Draw me, we will run after thee: the King hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more then Wine: the upright love thee.

Being now more confirmed in her desire, from the reasons she hath laid down, she comes in the 4. vers. more directly to propound and press her suit: for, rational insisting upon the grounds of grace, in pressing a petition, both sharpens desire, and strengthens the soul with more vigour and boldness, to pursue it's desires by Prayer. In the words we may consider, 1. the petition. 2. The motive made use of to press it. 3. The answer, or grant of what was sought. 4. The effects of the answer following on her part, suitable some-way to her engagement.

Being now more confirmed in her desire, from the reasons she hath laid down, she comes in the 4. vers. more directly to propound and presse her suit: for, rational insisting upon the grounds of grace, in pressing a petition, both sharpens desire, and strengthens the soul with more vigour and boldnesse, to pursue it's desires by Prayer. In the words we may consider, 1. the petition. 2. The motive made use of to presse it. 3. The answer, or grant of what was sought. 4. The effects of the answer following on her part, suitable some-way to her ingagement.

The petition is, Draw me, a word used in the Gospel, to set forth the efficacious work of the Spirit of God upon the heart, engaging the soul in a most sweet, powerful and effectual way to Jesus Christ: None can come to me (saith Christ) except the Father draw him, Joh. 6. 44. It is used here, to set forth the Brides desire to be brought into fellowship with Christ, by the power of this same Spirit, that as she desires a visit from Christ, so she desires his Spirit, that he may by his powerful operations draw her near to him. And although a Believer be not at a total distance with Christ, and so needs not renovation, as one in nature doth; yet considering what a Believer may fall into, a deadness of frame, as to the lively exercise of grace, and a great distance, as to any sensible sweet communion with Jesus Christ, and that it must be by the power of that same Spirit (without which even these that are in Christ can do nothing) that they must be recovered, and again brought to taste of the joy of his salvation (as is clear from David's prayer,