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

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, Iohn 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 shew forth more evidences of it in their expressions, than ever they used formerly to do.

That these are the words of the Daughters of Jerusalem, may be cleared from these things, 1. That they are placed on the back of her charge to them; and when she charges, they use to answer (as Chap. 5. 9. and 8. 5.) and then she proceeds to speak to them, even so it is here; for, the words hold forth a mutual conference betwixt her and them, and therefore the words of this verse will be most pertinently understood as spoken by them. 2. They are the same words on the matter, and spoken on the same occasion, with these, Chap. 8. 5. which we will find to be spoken by them. 3. They can agree to none other. To say,