John Trapp on Song of Solomon 1:9

Verſ. 9. I have compared thee, O my love, &c.] My Paſtoral-love, or Shepheardeſſe-companion, my Fellow-friend, or familiar Aſſociate in the function of ſpiritual feeding: My Neighbour, or Next, as the Greek renders it. For the Saints are not onely like unto Chriſt, 1 John 3.2. but alſo next unto him, Luk. 22.30. yea one with him, John 17.21. and ſo, above the moſt glorious Angels, Heb. 1.14. as being the Spouſe, the Bride; whereas Angels are onely ſervants of the Bridegroom: and as being the Members of Chriſt, and ſo in a nearer union than any creature. This the Devil and his Angels ſtomacked, and ſo fell from their firſt principality.

To a company of horſes] Or, to my troop of horſes in the Chariots of Pharaoh. The Palfreys, His, the Chariots Pharaohs, ſaith an Interpreter. What is this? but that the Spirit of ſtrength and ſpeed, it is Chriſts:Clapham. and the untoward fleſh (which is to be drawn by the ſame Divine Spirit) it is of the world, and the very Chariot of Satan. Soul and Body (as wheels and axletree) do run which way the Devil drives; till the ſtronger Man Jeſus have freed our Charret-nature from that power of hell, and joyned himſelf by his own Spirit unto our nature, that ſo (with Ezekiels Charret) it may go forth, and return as his Divine Spirit directeth. Thus hee.