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

BRIDEGROOM.

Vers. 4. Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

In vers. 4. (which begins the third part of the Chapter) Christ, the Bridegroom, comes in and speaks: Our Lord Jesus (as it were) hath been long silent, and here he breaks in, without any preface, and makes up all his former absence and silence, by his singular kindness, when he manifests himself to his Bride; which kindness, appears in the warmness and sweetness of his many and various expressions. He continues speaking unto vers. 10. of Chap. 7. after he had knocked at her door, Chap. 5. 2. he had been longing, as it were, to be in, and now when he wins in, he insists the more, and several ways prosecutes, and amplifies the commendation of his Bride. This is, 1. generally propounded in three similitudes, vers. 4. 2. It's aggreged in one instance thereof, vers. 5.—3. He descends to particulars, vers.—5, 6, 7: 4. He takes her up in diverse considerations, that speak her to be lovely and beautiful, vers. 8, 9. 5. This is confirmed by two ⟨p. 350⟩instances and proofs, 1. What the daughters did esteem of her, and their praise is marked, vers. 9, 10. 2. It's instanced in the influence that her loveliness had on him, vers. 11, 12, 13. And, 6. he proceeds in a different method from what he had, Chap. 4. to set out the particulars of her loveliness, Chap. 7.

In vers. 4. (which begins the third part of the Chapter) Christ, the Bridegroom, comes in and speaks: Our Lord Jesus (as it were) hath been long silent, and here he breaks in, without any preface, and makes up all his former absence and silence, by his singular kindnesse, when he manifests himself to his Bride; which kindnesse, appears in the warmnesse and sweetnesse of his many and various expressions. He continues speaking unto vers. 10. of Chap. 7. after he had knocked at her door, Chap. 5. 2. he had been longing, as it were, to be in, and now when he wins in, he insists the more, and several wayes prosecutes, and amplifies the commendation of his Bride. This is, 1. generally propounded in three similitudes, vers. 4. 2. It's aggreged in one instance thereof, vers. 5.—3. He descends to particulars, vers.—5, 6, 7: 4. He takes her up in diverse considerations, that speak her to be lovely and beautiful, vers. 8, 9. 5. This is confirmed by two