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A29507	A commentary on the Canticles or the Song of Salomon wherein the text is analised, the native signification of the words declared, the allegories explained, and the order of the times whereunto they relate observed / by Thomas Brightman ; unto which is added brief notes out of severall expositors of the Revelation touching the rising and fall, progresse and finall destruction of the enemies of the church with some other observations out of divers writers.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4681; ESTC R19776	96,242	119

Worthily was it now foretold that the beames should be of cedar when the building was set forward with such cost care and diligence whereby the first beauty of it might in some sort appear though perhaps it could not fully be restored And hitherto the condition of the Church was tollerable oftentimes afflicted with many miseries but now and then refreshed again when religious princes ruled The following times were more subject to calamities To which deservedly a new chapter is given bringing new fortune with it CHAP. II. I Am the rose of the field and the lillie of the valleyes 2 Like a lillie among the thornes so is my love among the daughters 3 Like the apple tree among the trees of the forrest so is my welbeloved among the sons of men under his shadow had I delight and sate downe and his fruit was sweet unto my mouth 4 He brought me into the wine cellar and love was his banner over me 5 Stay me with flagons and comfort me with apples for I am sick of love 6 His left hand is under mine head and his right hand doth embrace me 7 I charge you O daughters of Ierusalem by the ro●s and by hindes of the field that ye stir not up nor waken my love untill she please 8 It is the voice of my welbeloved behold he cometh leaping by the mountaines and skipping by the hills 9 My welbeloved is like a roe or a young hart loe he standeth behinde our wall looking forth of the windowes shewing himself thorow the grates 10 My welbeloved spake and said unto me Arise my love my fair one and come thy way 11 For behold winter is past the rain is changed and is gone away 12 The flowers appear in the earth the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land 13 The figtree hath brought forth her young figs and the vines with their small grapes have cast a savour arise my love my fair one and come away 14 My dove that art in the holes of the rock in the secret places of the staires shew me thy sight let mee hear thy voice for thy voice is sweet and thy sight comely 15 Take us the foxes the little foxes which destroy the vines for our vines have small grapes 16 My welbeloved is mine and I am his hee feedeth among the lillies 17 Vntill the day break and the shadowes flee away returne my welbeloved and be like a roe or a young hart upon the mountaines of Bether The Analysis THere remain yet other Kings unto the last Zedekias whose times are described vers 1. 2. And such should the Church be untill their carrying away In the Captivity it self there should be some comfort at well to some few left in their Countrey vers 3. as to the whole multitude in the enemies countrey partly that the Bridegroom should marvellously preserve the Church there vers 4. 5 6 7. partly that at length hee should deliver thence whereof there is an appearance more remote vers 8. 9. neer at hand vers 10 11 12 13. and at length the effecting of it vers 14. Hitherto the Captivity the state of the restored condition should be divers which we have divided into two times One to the birth of Christ the other from thence to ●is death The time next after the returne should be some what troublesome in the times next following vers 15. which after a little while should receive a tollerable rest vers 16. 17. Then more afflicted in the latter age shewed in the beginning of the Chapter following THE EXPOSITION Vers 1. I am the Rose of the field and the Lillie of the vallies IN this complaint the Church declareth her calamity as if shee should say I smell most sweetly as the Rose and am most beautifull as the Lillie yet to the Cropping and trampling on of every one I lie no lesse open then the flowers in the valleyes and those which grow in pasture grounds My wall is broken down my hedge pluckt up by the root and every one feedeth on my beauty at pleasure as the Heards on the grasse in the fields Yet I despaire not in these afflictions being assured that to my Beloved I am most sweet and pleasant And so is the Church wont to be who is never so much cast down but is now and then lifted up and refreshed by thinking on the excellencie which God hath be●towed on her Those times which followed the restoring of the Temple by Iosias do teach us that this complaint was just First Iosias himself a most pleasant flower of piety sweeter then any Rose was cropped by Pharaoh Neco and slain at Megiddo I●hoahaz his son when he had raigned onely three moneths was carried away Captive by the same Pharaoh and the Countrey made tributary Iehojakim served Nebuchadnezzar Ie●ojazin also after three moneths Raigne was carried into exile with ●is Courtiers and the Mightier men of t●e Countrey But most apparantly under Zedech●●s in whose raigne Ierusalem was taken and mi●erably spoiled The Temple burnt the houses puld down the walles overturned the City made equall to the ground and the people pulled from their Countrey seats carried Captive into bondage as free libertie given to the enemie of making havock in the Church as in the open fields The enemy hath stretched out his hand Zame●teth Ieremy Chap. 1. 10 upon all her pleasant things for she hath seen c. Vers 2. Like a Lillie among the thornes So is my L●ve among the daughters The Bridegroome answereth the former complaint and teacheth plainly how his beloved is not d●stitute of that comfort which shee thought she wanted If she would truly consider that He acknowledgeth her to be a Lilly naked of her former fences exposed to the prey as in the open fields Yet not void of all su●●our but as it were so guarded every where with a thick hedge of Briers and Bushes that neither the heards of Cattell nor the wilde beasts could approach to do her injurie For the similtude doth not onely set forth her excellency but chiefly her succour and safety That the Church should certainly be preserved safe and sound remaining in the midstof her Enemies and that shee should bee no lesse defended by her very enemies then flowers are wont to be among the thornes who beset them about with pricking branches It is manifest that the Church made triall of this comfort in those hard times when her safety was maintained by the helpe of them by whose hostile hatred shee seemed utterly destroyed Pharaoh defended her against Nebuchadnezzer and Nebuchadnezzar against Pharaoh Neither of them would root out the Nation as long as there was hope of faithfull obedience but supposed to defend it for himself as a sound resuge against the breaking in of Enemies with these bryers for a time shee put away extream calamity Verse 3. Like the Appletree among the trees of the forrest so is ●●y vvellbeloved among the

wel for delight as for more easie keeping The new old fruits have a plain meaning An excellent division of the citizens seemeth here to be set forth whereof some are far scattered in remote colonies like Mandrakes growing in the open fields others like domstique milder fruit which by vicinity or neer neighbour-hood yeeld more plentifull delights Some again are newly fresh planted into the Church like Mandrakes cold and lateward herbs springing more slowly such sh●ll the Jews be lastly called which shall more lately shake off their drowsinesse Some are elder who shall yeeld their names to the first calling and s●end their time in the received truth somewhat before the ●●st shall come in This shall be a most pleasant beholding to the elders when they shall see Religion not to decay with the age which alas we behold to our grief as if the fulnesse of the gentils did now approach every later generation in their degrees fall away from the sanctity of their parents The latter part of the verse teacheth that the spouse shall have a time at length to unlocke her store-houses and as it were in pompe openly set forth her unmeasurable riches in the exceeding great abundance of her citizens Thrifty housholders do not suffer all things to be used continually and conf●sedly but reserve some things for solemn feasts set apart from dayly uses which they may bring forth as occasion serveth for credit and honesty So the Church howsoever she hath oftentimes before declared her self not poor and needy but sufficient rich and abundantly ador●ed with all dignity yet she hath not applied these dainty banquets delicate dishes and sweet-meates to common and dayly diet but hath reserved them lockt up in store for this one solemnity whereby we may understand the glory of those times to be such as the former ages have never seen CHAP. VIII OH that thou werest as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother I would finde thee without I would kisse thee then they should not despise thee 2 I will lead thee and bring thee into my mothers house there thou shalt teach me and I will cause thee to drink spiced wine and new wine of the pomegranate 3 His left hand shall be under mine head and his right hand shall embrace me 4 I charge you O daughters of Ierusalem that you ●tirre not up nor waken my love untill she please 5 Who is this that comet● up out of the wildernesse leaning upon her welbeloved I raised thee up under an apple tree there thy mother conceived thee there she conceived that bare thee 6 Set me as a seal on thy heart and as a ●ignet upon thine arme for love is strong as death jealousie is cruell as the the grave the coales thereof are fierie coales and a vehement flame 7 Much water cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it if a man should give all the substance of his house for love they would greatly contemne it 8 We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what ●hall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for 9 If she be a wall we will build upon her a silver palace and if she be a door we will keep her in with boards of cedar 10 I am a wall and my breasts ar● as towers then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace 11 Salomon had a vine in Baal-hamon he gave the vineyard unto keepers every one bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver 12 But my vineyard which is mine is before me to the● O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of silver and two hundred to them that keep the fruit thereof 13 O thou that dwe●lest in the gardens the companions hearken unto thy voice cause me to hear it 14 Oh my welbeloved ●lee away and be like unto the roe or to the young ha●● upon the mountains of spices The Resolution THus ●●●re the prep●r●tion of the second c●lling the calling it self followeth declared by the wonderfull desire of the called vers 1. 2. By the mutuall love of the Bridegro●me vers 3. and his everlasting continuance vers 4. And such is the princesse the younger sister The other inferiours which accompany this princesse are two one is described coming out of the desert leaning upon her beloved and with wonderfull zeal vers 5 6. 7. the other is renowned by the great affection of the Sisters vers 8 9. and by her own readinesse vers 10. And hitherto of the Churches severally Iointly it sheweth as well how carefully the Bridegroom will defend the whole vers 11. 12. and what he requireth of the whole vers 13. as what the common desire of the spouse shall be namely that her beloved would fly hence and that she at length might be carried vvith him into everlasting habitacles vers 14. THE EXPOSITION Vers 1. O that thou wert as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother when I should finde thee without I would kisse thee yet I ●hould not be despised EVery thing now at length fully perfected and all the faithfull Iewes fitted into one body of Chr●st their affection is wo●derfull made clear by the Antithesis of the former Iewes with whom Christ in times past had to do in the earth that with wondrous skill with one and the same labour he setteth forth aswell the a●cursed hatred of these as the willing and ready love of those new citizens The old Iewes despised and refused Christ coming in the flesh and shewing himself a brother but there shall be nothing better ●o those nothing that they shall more desire then that they may enjoy the favour of his presence whereby that horrible wickednesse of despising the Son of God by their elders may be recompenced by their faith and diligen●e in holy duties the old Iewes sought only his death but fled and followed him not teaching in the streets with kisses but reproaches All familiarity with him was accounted for a reproach and blame Nicodemus constrained for fear to seeke private conference with him by night These shall diligently seeke him wheresoever he should be and finding him shall worship him with great reverence Neither shall they any whit regard the mo●ks and skoffes of the wicked the world shall then be of another fashion These later people altogether unlike to those their wicked elders Salomon hath most divinely comprised in these words aswell the wickednesse of those former in refusing Christas the pieti● of those later in imbracing him Vers 2. I would lead thee I would bring thee into my mothers house thou shouldest instruct me I would cause thee to drinke of spiced wine of the fruit of my Pomegranates He followeth the former Antithesis or opposition for he could not better expresse the integrity of those which are to be called then by opposing them to such as were formerly called in vain The old Iews then sh●t Christ out adores and desired to drive him out of the Temple