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

Daughters of Jerusalem.

Daughters of Ierusalem.

Vers. 6. Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with Myrrh and Frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Vers. 6. Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with Myrrhe and Frankincense, with all pouders of the merchant?

The visible professors having now gotten a serious charge (because they are not easily engaged; and it mars the good of our fellowship one with another in admonitions and warnings, when we are not serious even in the manner of our dealing with others) they are some way put in a little pee•e of warmness, and admiration more than ordinary (as ordinarily Christ's return to a Church and his Ordinances in it, after a palpable decay, hath some stir and affectionate-like motions accompanying it, such as was to be found in John's hearers, John 5. 35.) And in this affected and stirred condition they answer the Brides charge, O who is this? say they, importing they have more respect to the godly, and show forth more evidences of it in their expressions, than ever they used formerly to do.

The visible professors having now gotten a serious charge (because they are not easily ingaged; and it mars the good of our fellowship one with another in admonitions and warnings, when we are not serious even in the manner of our dealing with others) they are some way put in a little pee•e of warmnesse, and admiration more than ordinary (as ordinarily Christ's return to a Church and his Ordinances in it, after a palpable decay, hath some stir and affectionat-like motions accompanying it, such as was to be found in Iohn's hearers,