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

3. We may consider a twofold change of the number in the Brides speaking; it's We, which was Me: The King brought me, said she, but now We will rejoice. The reasons were given on the petition; and further, we may add here, that it's to show her being conform in her practice to her undertaking; and to show that that admission of hers redounded to the good of moe, and ought to take them up in praise with her. The other change of the person is, from the third to the second, from He, the King, to Thee in the second Person, (we will rejoice in Thee) which shows a holy complacency and delight, sometimes making her to speak of him, sometimes to him, yet so, as she loves to have Christ both the object and subject of her discourse, and the more he be to her, she is the more satisfied: This being another character of spiritual joy, and exulting in Christ, it still makes him to be the more to them, and they are still pressing under it, to be the nearer to him.

3. We may consider a twofold change of the number in the Brides speaking; it's We, which was Me: The King brought me, said she, but now We will rejoice. The reasons were given on the petition; and further, we may add here, that it's to shew her being conform in her practice to her undertaking; and to shew that that admission of hers redounded to the good of moe, and ought to take them up in praise with her. The other change of the person is, from the third to the second, from He, the King, to Thee in the second Person, (we will rejoice in Thee) which shews a holy complacency and delight, sometimes making her to speak of him, sometimes to him, yet so, as she loves to have Christ both the object and subject of her discourse, and the more he be to her, she is the more satisfied: This being another character of spiritual joy, and exulting in Christ, it still makes him to be the more to them, and they are still pressing under it, to be the nearer to him.

The 2. effect is, We will remember thy love more then Wine: What is understood by Love and Wine, as also, why the number is changed from the singular to the plural, hath been formerly ⟨p. 73⟩cleared. The word Remember, doth import these three things, 1. A thankful acknowledgement of the favour received, and a making of it to be remembered to his praise; this remembering is opposite to forgetting,