John Trapp on Song of Solomon 8:11

Verſ. 11. Solomon had a Vineyard in Baal-hamon] So hath Chriſt in a very fruitful hill, Iſa. 5.1. Solomons Vineyard muſt needs be of the beſt: for hee abounded both with wealth and wit, to make it ſo. Hee let it alſo to farm for a very great rent: which ſheweth the fruitfulneſs of it, ſo many vines ſet for ſo many ſilverlings, Iſa. 7.23. But Solomons Vineyard falls far ſhort of Chriſts (wherewith it is here compared in many reſpects.) For as it is nothing ſo fruitful, ſo hee was fain to let it out to Vine-dreſſers. Hee could not dreſs and manure it himſelf, keep it in his own hands, (as his Father David his, 1 Chron. 27.27.) neither could hee take all the fruit; for the tenants alſo muſt live, and reaſon good: If Solomon have a thouſand, the poor labourers may well have two hundred. But I, ſaith Chriſt here, neither let out the Church my Vineyard, but look to it my ſelf, though I have a great deal of pains with it: nor ſuffer any part of the profits to go from mee; So jealous I am of mine inheritance, being ever in the midſt of it.