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

Vers. 1. How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O princes daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Vers. 1. How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O princes daughter! the joynts of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

The first verse contains two pieces of the Brides commendation, The first part that is commended is the feet, How beautiful are thy feet? &c. In this consider the title she gets. 2. The part commended. 3. The commendation it self. 4. The manner of expressing of it. First, the title is, O princes daughter! This was not given her before, it's now prefixed to this commendation in general, to usher-in all that follows, and to make it the more gaining on her affection: The word in the first Language is, Na••ib, which signifies a bounteous prince, or, one of a princely disposition, Isa. 32. 5. It's given to the visible Church, Psal. 45. 13. The Kings daughter is all glorious within. For more full taking up of the meaning, consider, that it doth here include these three, 1. A nobleness and greatness in respect of birth, that the Bride ⟨p. 378⟩is honourably descended: From which we may learn, That believers (whatever they be in respect of the flesh) are of a royal descent and kindred, a royal priesthood, 1. Pet. 2. 9. sons and daughters to the Lord God Almighty, 2. Cor. 6. 18. 2. It respects her qualifications, as being princely in her carriage, suitable to such a birth, Eccles. 10. 17. Hence observe, the believer should be of a princely disposition and carriage, and when he is right, he will be so; for, he is endued with princely qualifications, with noble and excellent principles, beyond the most generous, noble, gallant and stately dispositions of men in the world: A believer when right, or in good case, is a princely person indeed. 3. It respects her provision and expectation; that she is provided for, waited upon, and to be dealt with, and even dalted, not as children of mean persons, but of princes, to whom it is her fathers good pleasure to give a Kingdom, and such a one as is undefiled, and fadeth not away,