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

4. Either this must be it's scope, or it must have some other scope, or none at all. To say none at all, is blasphemous: If it be said an other scope then this, then it must either be such a scope as agreeth with these other Scriptures, or which differeth from them; But not such as differeth from them, that cannot be said, therefore it must be the same: And so it setteth out Christ's way with his Church, and her's with Him, drawing them, as it were, in a Map together.

4. Either this must be it's scope, or it must have some other scope, or none at all. To say none at all, is blasphemous: If it be said an other scope then this, then it must either be such a scope as agreeth with these other Scriptures, or which differeth from them; But not such as differeth from them, that cannot be said, therefore it must be the same: And so it setteth out Christ's way with his Church, and her's with Him, drawing them, as it were, in a Mapp together.

Object. If any would argue, that it might better be Prophetically applied, as foretelling events in the Church, as some do: For answer, We suppose, it would be hard to make that out to be the scope and intention of the Spirit.

Object. If any would argue, that it might better be Prophetically applyed, as foretelling events in the Church, as some do: For answer, We suppose, it would be hard to make that out to be the scope and intention of the Spirit.

2. It would be more hard to get help from other Scriptures, in the application of it to such events, and such times; and so this would leave it wholly to uncertainty, or mens pleasure, as their invention, and groundless conjectures, would lead them to apply it: (as we fear some good men have taken too much liberty, without any ground but mere conjectures, to wrest the scope of this Song) and beside, such an Interpretation would exceedingly spoil Believers of that instruction and consolation, which