First, The strain and series of it, is clearly Allegoric, as the reading and considering of it will clear. 2. There can be no History to which it can relate, unto which the things spoken in this Song can be properly applied, as is said. 3. Solomon's Marriage was at least twenty years before this Song was written; See on Song 7. concerning the Tower of Lebanon, and compare it with 1 King. 7. 1, 2. and Chap. 6. ult. Therefore it cannot be thought so much as to be Penned on that occasion, as an Epithalamium which was to be sung that night on which he was Married, (and although occasion of penning of it, were taken from that, yet would it not prove it Typical, and to respect that as it's Type.) And 4. What more is this Allegory of a Marriage, to be accounted Typical, then other places of Scripture, where this same manner of expression is used? 5. If it be partly Typical, how is this Type to be made up? for Christs love unto, and Marriage with, his Church, is not only set out here as peculiar to the New Testament, but is applicable to Believers under the Old: There can therefore be here no comparing of Facts of the Old Testament, with any thing answering to them in the New. If it be said, Solomon's Marriage Typified Christ's Marrying of the Gentiles. I answer, beside that there is no Scripture for this conjecture (and it's hard to coin Types without Scripture authority, otherwise we might make Solomon a Type in his many Wives, possibly, and in ⟨p. 11⟩many other such things; also that of his marrying Pharaoh's Daughter was against a Law as well as this) it cannot be said that this Song setteth out only Christ's love to the Gentiles; or the believing Gentiles, their carriage and love to him: for, was it not fulfilled (in that which they would make it's Anti-type) before Christ came in the flesh, in the believing Jews? yea, before ever that Marriage was: and therefore, there can be no typical respect had to that Marriage here. Beside, it would much darken the Spiritualness and Divineness of this Song, to make it in such a way typical, as having any proper fulfilling or meaning, that were possibly verified in the deed of any man. We conclude then, that this Song is simply Allegoric.
First, The strain and series of it, is clearly Allegorick, as the reading and considering of it will clear. 2. There can be no History to which it can relate, unto which the things spoken in this Song can be properly applyed, as is said. 3. Solomon's Marriage was at least twenty years before this Song was written; See on Song 7. concerning the Tower of Lebanon, and compare it with 1 King. 7. 1, 2. and Chap. 6. ult. Therefore it cannot be thought so much as to be Penned on that occasion, as an Epithalamium which was to be sung that night on which he was Married, (and although occasion of penning of it, were taken from that, yet would it not prove it Typical, and to respect that as it's Type.) And 4. What more is this Allegory of a Marriage, to be accounted Typical, then other places of Scripture, where this same manner of expression is used? 5. If it be partly Typical, how is this Type to be made up? for Christs love unto, and Marriage with, his Church, is not only set out here as peculiar to the New Testament, but is applicable to Believers under the Old: There can therefore be here no comparing of Facts of the Old Testament, with any thing answering to them in the New. If it be said, Solomon's Marriage Typified Christ's Marrying of the Gentiles. I answer, beside that there is no Scripture for this conjecture (and it's hard to coyn Types without Scripture authority, otherwise we might make Solomon a Type in his many Wives, possibly, and in ⟨p. 11⟩many other such things; also that of his marrying Pharaoh's Daughter was against a Law as well as this) it cannot be said that this Song setteth out only Christ's love to the Gentiles; or the believing Gentiles, their carriage and love to him: for, was it not fulfilled (in that which they would make it's Anti-type) before Christ came in the flesh, in the believing Jews? yea, before ever that Marriage was: and therefore, there can be no typical respect had to that Marriage here. Beside, it would much darken the Spiritualnesse and Divinnesse of this Song, to make it in such a way typical, as having any proper fulfilling or meaning, that were possibly verified in the deed of any man. We conclude then, that this Song is simply Allegorick.
