An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.

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An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.

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Robotham, John, fl. 1654.

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1651.

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Contents

• title page
• To the HONORABLE COLONEL DOWNES, Esquire, A Mem∣ber of the Honourable House of Parlia∣ment, Justice of the Peace, and Deputy Lievetenant of the County of Sussex.
• AN EXPOSITION Of the Song of SOLOMON Called Canticles.
  • CHAP. 1.
    • VERS. 1.
    • VERS. I.
      • The song of songs, &c.
  • CHAP. 1.
    • VERS. 2, 3.
      • Let him kisse mee with the kisses of his mouth, &c.
      • With the kisses of his mouth.
      • For thy loves are better then wine.
      • Thy loves, &c.
      • Better then wine.
    • VERS. 3.
      • Because of the savour, &c.
      • Of thy good ointments, or good oiles.
      • Thy name is as ointment, &c.
      • As ointment powred forth.
      • Therefore doe the Virgins love thee.
      • Love thee.
    • VERS. 4.
      • Draw me.
      • Wee will run after thee.
      • Wee will run.
      • The King hath brought mee into his chambers.
      • The King hath brought me into his Chambers.
      • The King hath brought me, &c.
      • The King hath brought me iuto his Chambers.
      • We will be glad and rejoyce in thee: we will remember thy love more then Wine: the Ʋpright love thee.
      • We will be glad and rejoyce.
      • And rejoyce.
      • We will remember thy love more then wine.
      • Thy loves more then wine.
      • The Ʋpright love thee.
      • The upright love thee.
      • The upright love thee.
    • VERS. 5, 6.
      • I am blacke, but comely.
      • But comely.
      • O yee daughters of Jerusalem.
      • As the Tents of Kedar.
      • As the Curtaines of Solomon.
      • But comely.
      • As the tents of Kedar: as the curtains of Solomon.
      • O yee daughters of Jerusalem.
    • VERS. 6.
      • Looke not upon me, &c.
      • Because I am blacke.
      • Because the sunne hath looked upon mee.
      • My mothers children were angry with me.
      • Were angry with me.
      • They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own vin∣yard have I not kept.
      • The keeper of the Vineyards.
      • Of the Vineyards.
      • But my owne Vineyard I have not kept.
      • I have not kept.
      • Because the Sun hath looked upon me.
      • My mothers children were angry with mee.
      • They made me, &c.
      • The keeper of the Vineyards.
      • But my owne Vineyard I have not kept.
    • VERS. 7, 8.
      • Tell me (O thou whom my soul loveth) &c.
      • O thou whom my soule loveth.
      • My soule.
      • Where thou feedest, where thou makest thy Flocks to rest at Noone.
      • Thou makest to rest.
      • At Noone.
      • Why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy Companions.
      • Why should I be like, &c.
      • By the flocks of thy Companions.
      • Of thy companions.
    • Vers. 8,
      • If thou knowest not, &c.
      • Knowest not.
      • O thou fairest among women.
      • The fairest among women.
      • Goe thy way forth, &c.
      • By the footsteps of the flocke.
      • Of the Flocke.
      • And feed thy Kids beside the Shepheards Tents.
      • Beside the Shepheards Tents.
      • Goe forth, &c.
      • By the foote-steps of the Flock.
      • And feed thy Kids above the Shepheards tent.
    • VERS. 9, 10, 11.
      • O my Love.
      • I have compared thee to a company of horses in Pharaoh's Chariots.
      • To a company of horses.
      • In the Chariots of Pharaoh.
    • Vers. 10.
      • Thy Cheeks are comely, &c.
      • Are comely.
      • With rows of Jewells.
      • Thy Neck with chains of gold.
    • Vers. 11.
      • We will make, &c.
      • Borders of gold, with studs of silver.
      • Rowes of gold.
      • With studs of silver.
    • VERS. 12, 13, 14.
    • Vers. 12.
      • While the King sitteth, &c.
      • My Spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
    • VERS. 13.
      • A bundle of myrrhe is my beloved unto me, &c.
      • My beloved.
      • Ʋnto mee.
      • He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
      • Betwixt my Breasts.
      • A bundle of myrrhe, &c.
      • My Beloved.
      • My Beloved is unto me.
      • He shall lodge.
      • He shall lodge all night.
      • He shall lodge all night betwixt my Breasts.
    • Vers. 14.
      • A cluster of Camphire.
      • In the Vineyards of Engedi.
    • VERS. 15, 16, 17.
      • Behold, my love, thou art faire, &c.
      • Behold, thou art faire, my love, &c.
      • My love.
      • Thou art faire, thou art faire.
      • Thou hast Doves eyes.
    • VERS. 16.
      • Behold thou art faire, &c.
      • Yea, pleasant.
    • VERS. 17.
      • Our bed is greene.
      • Our bed is greene.
    • Vers. 17.
      • The beams of our house.
      • Of our house.
      • The beams of our house are Cedar.
      • And the rafters (or gallerirs) of firr.
      • Of Fir
  • CANTICLES. CHAPTER II.
    • VERS. 1, 2.
    • Vers. 1.
      • I am the rose of Sharon, &c.
      • The rose of Sharon.
      • Of Sharon.
      • The lilie of the vallies.
    • Vers. 2.
    • VERS. 3, 4, 5, 6.
      • I sat downe under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was pleasant unto my tast.
      • Ʋnder his shadow, &c.
      • I sat downe with great delight.
      • And his fruit was sweet to my tast.
    • Vers. 4.
      • He hath brought me, &c.
      • To the banquetting house.
      • And his banner over me was love.
    • Vers. 5.
      • Stay me with flagons, &c.
      • With flagons.
      • Comfort me with Apples.
      • For I am sick of love.
    • Vers. 6.
      • His left hand, &c.
    • VERS. 7, 8, 9.
      • I charge you, &c.
      • O ye Daughters of Jerusalem.
      • By the Roes, and by the Hindes of the Field.
      • That yee stir not up, nor awake my love.
      • My Love.
      • Ʋntill he please.
    • VERS. 8.
      • The voyce of my beloved.
      • Behold! he commeth leaping upon the Mountaines skipping upon the Hils.
      • He commeth leaping, &c.
      • Ʋpon the mountains.
    • VERS. 9.
      • Behold he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the window, shewing himselfe through the Lattesse.
      • Behold he standeth, &c.
      • He standeth.
      • Behind our Wall.
      • He looketh forth at the window.
      • Shewing himselfe through the Lattesse.
    • VERS. 10, 11, 12. 13.
      • My Beloved spake, and said unto me.
      • My love, my faire one.
      • My faire one.
      • Rise up, and come away.
      • Come away.
    • VERS. 11.
      • The Raine is over and gone.
    • VERS. 12.
      • The flowers appeare on the earth, &c.
      • The time of the singing of Birds is come.
      • The voyce of the Turtle is heard in our Land.
    • Vers. 13.
      • Arise my love, my faire one, and come away.
    • VERS. 14, 15.
      • My Dove,! &c.
      • That art in the Clefts, or holes of the Rock.
      • In the secret places of the stairs.
      • Let me see thy countenance, let me heare thy voyce, for sweet is thy voyce, and thy countenance is comely.
      • Let me see thy Countenance, &c.
      • Let me heare thy voyce.
      • For sweet is thy voyce, and thy Countenance is comely.
      • And thy Countenance is comely.
    • VERS. 15.
      • Take us the Foxes, &c.
      • The Foxes, the little Foxes, &c.
      • That spoile our Vines.
      • For our Vines have tender grapes.
    • VERS. 16, 17.
      • He feedeth among the Lilies.
    • Vers. 17.
      • Turne my Beloved &c.
      • Ʋntill the day breake, and the shadows flee away.
      • And be thou like a young Roe, or a young Hart upon the mountains of Bether.
  • CANTICLES Chap. III.
    • VERS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
      • By night on my Bed I sought him, &c.
      • I sought him whom my soule loveth.
      • But I found him not.
    • Verss. 2.
      • I will arise now, &c.
      • And goe about the City, in the streets and broad places. &c.
      • I sought him, but I found him not.
    • VERS. 3.
      • The Watchmen that goe about the City, &c.
      • Found me, &c.
      • Saw ye him whom my soule loveth.
    • VERS. 4.
      • It was but a little that I passed from them.
      • But I found him whom my soule loveth.
      • I held him and would not let him goe, untill I had brought him into my Mothers house, and into the Chamber of her that conceived me.
      • I held him, and would not let him goe, &c.
      • I would not let him goe, or leave him.
      • Ʋntill I had brought him into my Mothers house, and into the Chamber of her that conceived me.
    • VERS. 5.
    • VERS. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
      • Who is this, &c.
      • That commeth out of the Wildernesse, &c.
      • From the Wildernesse.
      • Like Pillars of smoke.
      • Perfumed with myrrhe and frankincense, withall the powders of the Marchant.
      • With all powders of the Merchant.
    • VERS. 7.
      • Behold his bed, which is Solomons.
      • Threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
    • VERS. 8.
      • They all hold Swords, &c.
      • Being expert in war.
      • Every man hath his Sword upon his thigh.
      • Because of the feare of the night.
    • VERS. 9.
      • Of the wood of Lebanon.
    • VERS. 10.
      • He made the Pillars thereof of silver.
      • The bottome thereof of gold.
      • The covering of it of purple.
      • The middest thereof being paved with love, for the daugh∣ters of Jerusalem.
    • VERS. 11.
      • Come forth O ye daughters of Zion, &c.
      • And behold King Solomon, with his Crowne, &c.
      • The Crowne wherewith his Mother crowned him.
      • In the day of his espousals, &c.
      • And in the day of the gladnesse of his heart.
  • CANTICLES Chap. IIII.
    • VERS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
    • VERS. 1.
      • Behold thou art faire my Love, thou art faire.
      • Thou hast Doves eyes within thy Locks, &c.
      • Within thy Locks.
      • Thy haire is as a flockof Goats that appeare from Mount Gilead.
      • That appeare from Mount Gilead.
    • VERS. 2.
      • Thy Teeth are like a flock of Sheep, &c.
      • Which come up from the washing.
      • Whereof every one beare twins.
      • And none is barren among them.
    • VERS. 3.
      • Thy lips are like a thred of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.
      • Thy lips are like a thred of Scarlet, &c.
      • Thy speech is comely.
      • Thy Temples are like a piece of pomgranate within thy locks.
    • VERS. 4.
      • Thy neck is like the Tower of David, &c.
      • Builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
      • Whereon there hang a thousand Fucklers.
      • All shields of mighty men.
    • VERS. 5.
    • VERS. 6.
      • Ʋntill the day breake, and shadows flee away.
      • I will get me to the mountaines of myrrhe, and to the hill of frankincense.
    • VERS. 7.
      • Thou art all faire, &c.
      • There is no spot in thee.
    • VERS. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
    • VERS. 8.
      • My Spouse, &c.
      • Come with me from Lebanon, &c.
      • Looke from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir, and Hermon, &c.
      • From the top of Shenir and Hermon.
      • And from the Lyons Dens, from the Mountaines of the Leopards.
    • VERS. 9.
      • Thou hast ravished my heart, thou hast ravished my heart.
      • My Sister, my Spouse.
      • My Spouse.
      • That the Church is the Spouse of Christ.
      • With one of thine eyes, and the chaine of thy neck.
    • VERS. 10.
      • How faire is thy love, my Sister, my Spouse!
      • How much better is thy love then wine!
      • And the smell of thine ointments then all spices!
    • VERS. 11.
      • Thy lips drop as the honey-combe, &c.
      • Honey and milke are under thy Tongue.
      • And the smell of thy Garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
    • VERS. 12.
      • A Garden inclosed is my Sister, my Spouse, &c.
      • A Garden inclosed.
      • My Sister, my Spouse.
      • A spring shut up, a fountaine sealed.
      • A spring, a fountaine.
      • A Fountaine shut up.
      • A Fountaine sealed.
    • VERS. 13, 14.
      • Thy plants are as an Orchard of Pomegranates, &c.
    • Vers. 14.
      • With all the chiefe spices.
    • VERS. 15, 16, 17.
      • A fountaine of gardens, &c.
      • A well of living waters.
      • And streames from Lebanon.
    • VERS. 16.
      • Awake, O North wind, and come thou South, &c.
      • And blow upon my Garden.
      • My Garden.
      • Blow upon his Garden.
      • That the spices thereof may flow out.
      • Let my Beloued come into his Garden, and eate his pleasant fruits.
      • To eate his pleasant fruits.
    • VERS. 17.
      • I am come into my garden, &c.
      • My Sister, my Spouse.
      • I have gathered my myrrhe with my Spice, I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey, I have dranke my wine with my milk.
      • I have gathered my myrrhe with my Spice, &c.
      • I have eaten my honey-comb, &c.
      • Eate O friends, drinke, yea, drinke abundantly, O Beloved.
      • O friends, O beloved!
  • CANTICLES. CHAP. V.
    • VERS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
      • I sleep, but my heart waketh, &c.
      • I sleep, but my heart waketh.
      • But my heart waketh.
      • It is the voyce of my beloved that knocketh, saying, o∣pen to me my Sister, my Love, my Dove, my Ʋnde∣filed: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
      • It is the voyce of my beloved that knocks, &c.
      • It is the voyce of my beloved that knocketh, saying, open unto me, &c.
      • Open unto me.
      • Open to me my Sister my love, my dove, my undefiled.
      • My Sister.
      • My love.
      • My Dove.
      • My undefiled.
      • For my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
      • For my head is full of dew, &c.
      • And my locks with the drops of the night.
    • VERS. 2.
    • VERS. 3, 4.
      • And my bowells were moved for him.
    • VERS. 4.
      • And my hands dropped with Myrrhe, and my fingers with sweet smelling Myrrhe, upon the handles of the lock.
    • VERS. 5.
      • But my beloved had withdrawne himselfe.
      • My soule failed when he spake.
      • When he spake.
      • I sought him, but I could not finde him, I called him, but he gave me no answer.
    • VERS. 6.
      • They smote me, they wounded me.
      • They wounded me.
      • The keepers of the wall tooke away my Vaile from me.
      • They tooke away the Vaile from me.
    • VERS. 7, 8, 9, 10, &c. to the end of the Chapter.
      • I charge you
      • O daughters of Jerusalem.
      • Tell ye him that I am sick of love.
      • That I am sick of love.
      • That shee is sick of love.
    • VERS. 8.
      • O thou fairest among women.
    • VERS. 9.
      • My beloved is white and ruddy, &c.
      • My beloved is white and ruddy, &c.
      • The chiefe among ten thousand.
    • VERS. 10.
      • His head is as fine gold.
      • His locks are bushie, and black as a Raven.
      • And black as a Raven.
    • VERS. 11.
      • His eyes are as the eyes of Doves.
      • By the Rivers of waters.
      • They be washed with milke.
      • And fitly set.
    • VERS. 12.
      • His Cheeks are a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.
      • And sweet flowers.
      • His Lips are like Lillies, dropping sweet smelling Myrrhe.
      • They drop pure Myrrhe.
    • VERS. 13.
      • Set with the Berrill.
      • His Belly is as bright Ivory overlaid with Saphires.
    • VERS. 14.
      • His legs are as Pillars of marble, &c.
      • Set upon sockets of fine gold.
    • VERS. 15.
      • He is altogether lovely.
      • This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
    • VERS. 16.
      • Whither is thy beloved gone? &c.
    • VERS. 17.
      • My beloved is gone into his Garden, to the bed of Spices, &c.
      • My beloved is gone downe into his Garden, &c.
      • To feed in the Gardens, to gather Lillies.
    • VERS. 18
  • CANTICLES. CHAP. VI.
    • VERS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
      • Thou art beautiful O my love.
      • Thou art faire as Tirzah.
      • Comely as Jerusalem.
      • Terrible as an Army with banners.
    • VERS. 2.
      • Turne away thine eyes from me, &c.
      • For they have overcome me.
      • Thy haire is as a flock of Goats that appeare from Gilead.
    • VERS. 3.
    • VERS. 4.
    • VERS. 5.
      • There are three score Queens, &c.
    • VERS. 6
      • My Dove, my undefiled is one, &c.
      • She is but one.
      • She is the only one of her Mother, she is the choice one of her that beare her.
      • She is the choice one of her that beare her.
      • The daughters saw her and blessed her; yea, the Queenes, and the Concubines, and they praised her.
    • VERS. 7.
      • Who is she, &c.
      • Faire as the Moone.
      • Cleare as the Sunne.
      • And terrible as an Army with banners.
    • VERS. 8.
      • I went downe into the Garden of Nuts.
      • To see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the Vine flourished, and Pomegranates budded.
      • The fruits of the valley
      • To see whether the Vine flourished, and the Pomegranates budded.
    • VERS. 9
      • My soule made me like the Chariots, &c.
      • The Chariots of Amminadab.
    • VERS. 10.
      • Returne, returne, &c.
      • O. Shulamite.
      • That we may looke upon thee.
      • As it were the company of two Armies.
      • Of two Armies.
  • Canticles. Chap. 7.
    • Vers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c.
      • How beautifull are thy feet with Shoes, O Princes Daugh∣ter?
      • How beautifull are thy feet, &c.
      • How beautifull are thy feet with Shooes.
      • O Princes Daughter!
      • The joynts of thy Thighs are like Jewells, the worke of the hands of a cunning work-man.
      • Are like Jewells.
      • The worke of the hands of a cunning work-man.
    • VERS. 2.
      • Thy Navell is like a round Goblet, &c.
      • Which wanteth not liquor.
      • Thy belly is like an heap of wheate, set about with Lilies.
      • Set about with Lilies.
    • VERS. 3.
    • VERS. 4.
      • Thy neck is as a Tower of Ivory.
      • Thine eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim.
      • By the gate of Bath-rabbim.
      • Thy nose is like the Tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.
      • Looking toward Damascus.
    • VERS. 5.
      • As Carmell.
      • And the haire of thy head like Purple.
      • The King is held in the Galleries.
      • The King is held in the Galleries.
    • VERS. 6.
      • How faire art thou.
      • And how pleasant art thou?
      • O my love.
      • How pleasant art thou for delights?
    • Vers. 7.
      • And thy breasts to clusters of grapes
    • VERS. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
      • I said, I will goe up to the Palme-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof.
      • I said I will goe up to the palme-tree, and take hold of the boughes, &c.
      • Now also thy breasts shall be as the Clusters of the Vine and the smell of thy Nose like Apples.
      • And the smell of thy Nose like Apples.
    • VERS. 9.
      • The roofe of thy mouth is like the best wine, &c.
      • —For my beloved, that goeth downe sweetly.
      • Causing the lips of those that are asleep to speake.
    • VERS. 10.
      • I am my beloveds, and his desire is towards me.
    • VERS. 11.
      • Come my beloved.
      • Let us goe forth into the fields.
      • Let us lodge in the Villages.
    • VERS. 12.
      • Whither the Pomegranates flourish.
      • There will I give thee my loves.
    • VERS. 13.
      • At our gates are all manner of sweet fruits.
      • New and old.
      • Which I have laid up for thee O beloved.
  • Canticles. Chap 8.
    • Vers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
      • O that thou wert as my Brother, that sucked the Breasts of my Mother: when I should find thee without, I would kisse thee, yet I should not be dispised.
      • O that thou wert as my Brother, &c.
      • As a Brother.
      • That sucked the breasts of my Mother.
      • When I should find thee without, I would kisse thee; yet I should not be despised.
      • I would kisse thee, yet I should not be despised.
    • VERS. 2.
      • Into the house of my Mother.
      • The juice of my Pomegranat.
    • VERS. 3.
    • VERS. 4.
    • VERS. 5.
      • Who is this that commeth up, &c.
      • From the Wildernesse.
      • Leaning upon her beloved.
      • I raised thee up under the Apple tree.
      • There thy mother brought thee forth, there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
    • VERS. 6.
      • Set me as a Seale upon thine heart, &c.
      • For love is strong as death.
      • Jealousie is cruel as the grave.
      • Cruel, or hard as the grave.
      • Which hath a most vehement flame.
    • VERS. 7.
      • Many waters cannnot quench love, &c.
      • If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly contemned.
    • VERS. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
      • We have a little sister and she hath no breasts, &c.
      • We have a little Sister, &c.
      • She hath no Breasts.
      • What shall we doe for our Sister in the day that she shall be spoken for?
      • She shall be spoken for.
    • VERS. 9.
      • If she be a wall.
      • We will build in it a Pallace of Silver.
      • And if she be a doore, &c.
    • VERS. 10.
      • I am a wall.
      • Her breasts are as Towers.
      • Then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
    • VERS. 11, 12.
      • Solomon had a Vineyard, &c.
      • At Baal-hamon.
      • He let out the Vineyard unto keepers.
      • Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thou∣sand pieces of Silver.
    • VERS. 12.
      • Thou (O Solomon) must have a thousand, &c.
      • And those that keepe the fruit thereof, two hundred.
    • VERS. 13.
      • O thou that dwellest in the Gardens.
      • The companions hearken to thy voyce, cause me to heare.
    • VERS. 14.
      • Make hast my beloved.
      • And be like unto the Roe, or the young Hart.
      • Ʋpon the Mountaines of Spices.
• A Table of the principle things con∣tained in the foregoing Exposition.
• A Table of those Scriptures which are occasionally handled or briefly il∣lustrated in the foregoing Exposition, The first numberrelates to the Chapter, the second to the verse, the third to the page.
• THE PRINTER To the READER.
• ERRATA.