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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.
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.
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 ⟨p. 13⟩the true scope giveth them; for then they were not to apply it to themselves, or to the Church, but at such a Time, and in such an Age: because, if it shall be once fulfilled in others, or, if it be not applicable to them, because they live not in such a time, it will certainly mar their confidence in making any comfortable application of it to themselves.
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 meer conjectures, to wrest the scope of this Song) and beside, such an Interpretation would exceedingly spoil Believers of that instruction and consolation, which ⟨p. 13⟩the true scope giveth them; for then they were not to apply it to themselves, or to the Church, but at such a Time, and in such an Age: because, if it shall be once fulfilled in others, or, if it be not applicable to them, because they live not in such a time, it will certainly marr their confidence in making any comfortable application of it to themselves.