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

When she hath laid down this ground of her interest in him, she proceeds to improve it, vers. 11. by giving him a kindly and ⟨p. 405⟩familiar invitation, which she, first, qualifies in the end of the eleventh verse, and beginning of the twelfth, and then in what followeth, adds some motives to press it. The similitude of a loving wives carriage to a kind husband is continued, as if such a loving wife, desirous of her husbands company, did invite him to the fields, thereby in a retired way to be solaced with his company, especially by going abroad with him in a pleasant springtime, and staying some nights in villages for that end, and that they might the more seriously and comfortably view the state of their Orchards and Gardens, which is both pleasant, profitable and delightsome to be done in the husbands company: Even so doth the Bride follow the similitude, to show what she desired from Christ in desiring of his company, and for what end, to wit, both for the profit and comfort she expected to reap thereby.

When she hath laid down this ground of her interest in him, she proceeds to improve it, vers. 11. by giving him a kindly and ⟨p. 405⟩familiar invitation, which she, first, qualifies in the end of the eleventh verse, and beginning of the twelfth, and then in what followeth, adds some motives to presse it. The similitude of a loving wifes carriage to a kind husband is continued, as if such a loving wife, desirous of her husbands company, did invite him to the fields, thereby in a retired way to be solaced with his company, especially by going abroad with him in a pleasant springtime, and staying some nights in villages for that end, and that they might the more seriously and comfortably view the state of their Orchards and Gardens, which is both pleasant, profitable and delightsome to be done in the husbands company: Even so doth the Bride follow the similitude, to shew what she desired from Christ in desiring of his company, and for what end, to wit, both for the profit and comfort she expected to reap thereby.