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A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively…
A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively describing the estate of the church in all the ages thereof, both Jewish and Christian, to this day ... / written by that learned and godly divine, John Cotton ...
London: printed for Philip Nevil, 1642
Chapter 7: THE CANTICLES, OR SONG OF SONGS, opened and explained.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These Officers shall not basely shark for bribes,1 nor exact for fees, nor oppress for filthy lucre, nor pick holes in mens estates to trouble the ⟨p. 214⟩people and enrich themselves; but like purple-clothed Princes, be like their Ministers, and honour both their Ministers and themselves with Peace and Righteousness.
These Officers shall not basely sharke for bribes,1 nor exact for fees, nor oppresse for filthy lucre, nor pick holes in mens estates to trouble the ⟨p. 214⟩people and enrich themselves; but like purple-clothed Princes, be like their Ministers, and honour both their Ministers and themselves with Peace and Righteousnesse.
- 1Isai. 60. 17. and 18.
The King is held in the Rafters.] For so the word is turned before,1 where the Rafters were understood partly of the Temple. Held, is always (to my remembrance) used for holding by constraint, bound as a Prisoner. The meaning may be then, That the King, or chief Magistrate is bound to be present at the Ordinances of God in the Temple, as any other private Christian; which is foretold expressly of this Church,2 when the people go into the Temple, the Prince is commanded to go in with them, when they go out, he shall go out with them together; he shall come in with the first, and go out with the last: Or what if it imply that their greatest Magistrates shall submit themselves to be bound with the censures of the Church,