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

The particular that is again repeated, is her breasts, which are compared to a cluster of grapes, or wine, as it is in the eight verse, We conceive, by breasts here, is signified her love and affection, whereby he is entertained, So, Chap. 1. 13. he shall lye all night between my breasts; and so it agreeth well with that expression, Prov. 5. 19. let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou always ravished with her love: This is confirmed from the similitude unto which it is compared, and that is, grapes, or wine; Showing, that her love is refreshful, and cordial (to speak so) to him: Thy breasts (saith he) that is, to lye between thy breasts, and to be kindly entertained by thee, is more than wine to me: And this is the same thing which was said, Chap. 4. 10. How much better is thy love than wine? And the similitude being the same, we think the thing is the same that is thereby set forth and commended, and it is singularly taken notice of by Christ through all the Song, and marked in Chap. 4. and here, as that which makes all her stature so lovely in it self: Love makes every grace act (therefore is it the fulfilling of the law) and makes grace in it's actings beautiful and lovely to him. These words then, may either express, 1. the loveliness of her love: Or, 2. the delight which he took in it, as esteeming highly of it; she was so very lovely, that nothing refreshed him so much as her breasts: Which expression (as all the rest) holds out intense spiritual-love, under the expressions ⟨p. 396⟩that are usual amongst men. And it says, 1. that the beauty of grace is a ravishing beauty; or Christ's love delights in the love of his people; a room in their hearts is much prized by him. 2. Christ hath a complacency and acquiescence in his people, which he hath in none other, and where more grace is, there his complacency (though one in it self) doth the more manifest it self. 3. When a believer is right and in good case, then his love to Christ is warm: And particularly, a right frame is by nothing sooner evidenced, than by the affections; and it's ordinarily ill or well with us, as our love to Christ is vigorous or cold.

The particular that is again repeated, is her breasts, which are compared to a cluster of grapes, or wine, as it is in the eight verse, We conceive, by brests here, is signified her love and affection, whereby he is entertained, So, Chap. 1. 13. he shall lye all night between my brests; and so it agreeth well with that expression,