Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 3:2

2 I will rise now , and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways , I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not .

I will immediately apply my self to seek him, without whom my bed can give me no rest nor comfort.

The City of God, the Church in which Christ resides.

Not finding him in private Prayer, and Meditation, I sought him in the places of publick Assemblies, and Ordinances; for the People frequently met together in the streets, not only for civil, but for religious ends, 2 Chron. 32. 6. Neh. 8. 1, 3, 16. Prov. 1. 20. 21. Luk. 13. 26.

He saw fit still to delay the discoveries of his Grace, partly to chastise my former folly, partly to try my sincerity and constancy, and partly that he might be more welcome when he came to me.