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Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon
Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon by James Durham ...
Edinburgh: printed by George Swintoun and James Glen, 1668
Clavis Cantici: OR, A KEY of the SONG, Useful for opening up thereof.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. The strain and subject of it is so very spiritual, that it necessitates the Students thereof, to aim at some nearness with God; and ordinarily it leaves some stamp upon their affections, which is not the least cause, nor the smallest encouragement to me in this undertaking.
5. The strain and subject of it is so very spiritual, that it necessitats the Students thereof, to aime at some nearnesse with God; and ordinarily it leaves some stamp upon their affections, which is not the least cause, nor the smallest encouragement to me in this undertaking.
We shall not stand to prove the authority of it: It carries a Divine style in its bosom; nor is there need to inquire who was the Penman of it, it being clear that Solomon, who was furnished with wisdom and understanding, as never a King before or since was, is honoured to be the Amanuensis of the Holy Ghost, in putting this Song upon record. Whether after, or before his backsliding, it is not much to us; though it be most probable that it was after, in the warmness of a spirit sensible of this so great a deliverance: For here we may, as it were, see him making use of that experience of the vanity of all things he had found, coming to the fear of God as the conclusion of the whole matter; whereof this Song of Love is not a little evidence, and which looks like his own saying, Eccles. 12. 13.
We shall not stand to prove the authority of it: It carries a Divine style in its bosome; nor is there need to inquire who was the Penman of it, it being clear that Solomon, who was furnished with wisdom and understanding, as never a King before or since was, is honoured to be the Amanuensis of the Holy Ghost, in putting this Song upon record. Whether after, or before his backsliding, it is not much to us; though it be most probable that it was after, in the warmness of a spirit sensible of this so great a deliverance: For here we may, as it were, see him making use of that experience of the vanity of all things he had found, coming to the fear of God as the conclusion of the whole matter; whereof this Song of Love is not a little evidence, and which looks like his own saying,