Annotations upon all the books of the Old and New Testament wherein the text is explained, doubts resolved, Scriptures parallelled and various readings observed / by the joynt-labour of certain learned divines, thereunto appointed, and therein employed, as is expressed in the preface.

CHAP. VI.

Vers. 1. THat we may seek him with thee] The faithfull, hea∣ring Christ so commended, desire to seek him with the Church.

V. 2. My beleved is gone into his garden] Jerusalem being on an hill, they went down to the gardens: so Christ comes down from heaven spiritually into the congregation.

V. 4. as Tirzah] A fair and strong city, the seat of Jeroboams kingdom, 1 Kings 14. 17.

V. 5. Turn away thine eyes from me] This declareth the excee∣ding love of Christ toward his Church.

V. 8. There are threescore queens] It seems that Solomon writ this book of Canticles before he had his full number of wives; for he had many more after.

and virgins, &c.] To attend on the queens, psal. 45. 14.

V. 9. my undefiled is but one] Christ commends his Church above all other societies: and they commend her also.

she is the onely one, &c.] As dear as an onely childe, Jer. 31. 20.

V. 10. terrible as an army, &c.] Though the beginning of the Church was small, yet afterwards it grew to a great number.

V. 12. Or over I was aware] Christ coming to see the good works of his people, is like a young man suddenly ravished with the beauty of a virgin.