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

We come to the last part of the Chapter, in the two last verses, in which the Bride commends Christ's beauty, and the sweetness of fellowship with him: He had been commending her, and now she hastens to get the commendation turned over on him, Behold, thou art fair, &c. And there are two things which she here commends. 1. She commends the Bridegroom himself, Behold, thou, &c. 2. She commends fellowship with him under the similitude of bed, house and galleries, vers. 16. 17. From the connection of this with the former purpose, ye may see how restless believers are, when they meet with any commendation from Christ, till they get it turned over to his commendation and praise: And this is the property of a believer, to be improving every good word they get from Christ, to his own commendation that speaks it; This is the end and design why grace is bestowed upon believers, that it may turn in the upshot and issue to the commendation of his grace. 2. That there is nothing more readily warms the hearts of believers, with love, and looses their tongues in expressions of commending Christ, than the intimation of his love to them; this makes their tongue as the pen of a ready writer, Psal. 45. 1.

We come to the last part of the Chapter, in the two last verses, in which the Bride commends Christ's beauty, and the sweetnesse of fellowship with him: He had been commending her, and now she hastens to get the commendation turned over on him, Behold, thou art fair, &c. And there are two things which she here commends. 1. She commends the Bridegroom himself, Behold, thou, &c. 2. She commends fellowship with him under the similitude of bed, house and galleries, vers. 16. 17. From the connexion of this with the former purpose, ye may see how restlesse believers are, when they meet with any commendation from Christ, till they get it turned over to his commendation and praise: And this is the property of a believer, to be improving every good word they get from Christ, to his own commendation that speaks it; This is the end and design why grace is bestowed upon believers, that it may turn in the upshot and issue to the commendation of his grace. 2. That there is nothing more readily warms the hearts of believers, with love, and looses their tongues in expressions of commending Christ, than the intimation of his love to them; this makes their tongue as the pen of a ready writer, Psal. 45. 1.