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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. › Chapter 2 › Verse 7
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.
Vers. 7. I charge you, O ye Daughters of Jerusalem; by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my Love, till he please.
Vers. 7. I charge you, O ye Daughters of Ierusalem; by the Roes, and by the Hindes of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my Love, till he please.
This verse contains her care to entertain this condition, and the way she takes for that end. That they are the Brides words, is, 1. clear from the scope and matter. 2. From the expressions she useth, speaking of him, my Love, and till he please; for, it becomes us to give Christ his own liberty in staying or going, and it were not our good that our pleasure were the rule in our fellowship with him. Now in order to the securing of this comfortable condition to her self; first, she adjures and charges, which is, 1. To show the concernment of the thing. 2. Her seriousness in it; for, she is in very great earnest. 3. A fear of misguiding this condition. 4. A difficulty so to prevent the hazard, as to keep all quiet.
This verse contains her care to entertain this condition, and the way she takes for that end. That they are the Brides words, is, 1. clear from the scope and matter. 2. From the expressions she useth, speaking of him, my Love, and till he please; for, it becomes us to give Christ his own liberty in staying or going, and it were not our good that our pleasure were the rule in our fellowship with him. Now in order to the securing of this comfortable condition to her self; first, she adjures and charges, which is, 1. To shew the concernment of the thing. 2. Her seriousness in it; for, she is in very great earnest. 3. A fear of misguiding this condition. 4. A difficulty so to prevent the hazard, as to keep all quiet.
2. The parties she speaks to, while she thus adjures, are the Daughters of Jerusalem, giving them the lesson she would take to her self, because they had need to be thus guarded. Obs. 1. That professors are in hazard to mar their own enjoyments, and to interrupt an intimate fellowship with Christ. 2. Beginners are readiest to fall in this sin. 3. Seriousness will stir up believers to be watchful over themselves, and will make them press others to be so also.