John Trapp on Song of Solomon 4:8

Verſ. 8. Come with mee from Lebanon, &c.] Or, Thou ſhalt come with mee, &c. by way of promiſe. And it is doubled for more certainty, q. d. Nothing ſhall hinder thee, but thou ſhalt indeed come with mee, and enjoy my continual preſence. This ſhee had begged hard for, in the former chapters, and this ſhee is now ſweetly aſſured of, with a new largeſſe of love ſealed up in the kindeſt compellation, Spouſe: which ſignifieth the wife married, and already joyned to her husband. Yea in the next verſe hee calleth her both Sister and Spouſe. The neareſt affinity is Spouſe, and the neareſt conſanguinity Siſter. Thus Chriſt is better to his people than their prayers, better than their hopes. Hezekiah asked one life, God gave him two; adding fifteen years to his daies.Pſal. 21.4 John 16.24 David asked life, and God gave him life for ever and ever. Hitherto yee have asked mee nothing, ſaith Chriſt: that is, nothing to what I am ready to give you. Hee ſtands diſpoſed to his ſuiters, as Naaman did toward Gehezi, 2 King. 5. Gehezi asked but one talent: nay take two, ſaith Naaman: one is too little, take two. And hee preſſed him, and heaped them upon him.2 King. 4 God deals with his ſervants, as the Prophet did with that widow, when hee bade her borrow veſſels, and the cruſe never ceaſed running till there was no room. Or as hee dealt with the Shunamite in the ſame chapter: when hee bade her ask what ſhee needed, and ſhee found not any thing to requeſt at his hands, hee ſends for her again, and makes her a free promiſe of that which ſhee moſt wanted and deſired, and tells her that God would give her a Son.

From Lebanon, Look from the top of Amana] Or Abanah, as the River running under it was called,Strabo, lib. 14 2 King. 5.12. And Strabo ſaith, that it was a Mountain forcibly poſſeſſed by many tyrants. Of Shenir and Hermon, ſee Deut. 3.9. Theſe all were haunted with wilde beaſts, even Lebanon alſo, 2 King. 14.9. though otherwiſe a pleaſant and plentiful place, Deut. 3.25. Hereby is ſignified, that the Lord Chriſt from all parts will call and collect unto himſelf a people: and although hee finde them Lions and Leopards, (as here) untameable and untractable, hee will ſoon ſubdue them to the obedience of the Faith; ſo that the Lion ſhall dwell with the Lamb, and the Leopard lie down with the Kid, Iſa. 11.6. all bloodineſs and rapine ſhall bee laid aſide, as it was with the wilde beaſts in Noahs Ark. Thus Paul, that ravening Wolf of the Tribe of Benjamin, (Gen. 49.27.) is made to preach the Faith, which once hee deſtroyed, Gal. 1.23. Thus the Antient Britains our Forefathers, though like that Demoniack in the Goſpel, fierce above meaſure, and inhoſpital Salvages, ſo that the Romans could not come at them, Chriſto tamen ſubditi, ſaith Tertullian, Bond in Horat. Carm. lib. 3. od. 3. Act. and Mon. 924. & 1555. Ibid. Anno 1755 yet they were eaſily ſubdued by Chriſt: and then ſenſim evanuit feritas indies, exulavit immanitas, corruit crudelitas, ſaith one, they were ſuddenly and ſtrangely altered; not civilized onely, but ſanctified. So was Juſtin Martyr, Cyprian, Auſtin, Vergerius, Latimer, Julius Palmer, that Popiſh Prieſt of Canterbury, who ſaid Maſs on one day, and the next day after came into the Pulpit, and made a long Sermon againſt it, deſiring the people to forgive him, Speed. 761 for hee had betrayed Chriſt, &c. As long before him in Wickliffes daies, and by his means, one that was the Popes Chaplain renounced him, profeſſing that hee came out of his Order,Act. and Mon. 1565. as out of the Devils neſt, &c. And although not a Scholar in Oxford would look upon the good Biſhops Ridley and Cranmer priſoners in Bocardo, Speed. Ibid. but generally ſet againſt them, yet the whole body of that Univerſity gave a glorious teſtimony under their publick ſeal of Wickliffes religious life, profound learning, Orthodox opinions, exquiſite writings, all furtheſt from any ſtain of Hereſie. See what Chriſt can do where hee pleaſeth to come in by his mighty Spirit.