A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively…

Use 2 Secondly, we may from hence observe to whom the praise of the conversion of the forwardest Christians is ⟨p. 217⟩due; to wit, to the hands of a cunning workman, the God of power and peace. We might be also called as often to return, as the Shulamite in the last verse of the former Chapter: and yet unless this cunning workman put the bones of our thighs into joint, we shall not return to him.

Ʋse 2 Secondly, we may from hence observe to whom the praise of the conversion of the forwardest Christians is ⟨p. 217⟩due; to wit, to the hands of a cunning workman, the God of power and peace. We might be also called as often to returne, as the Shulamite in the last verse of the former Chapter: and yet unlesse this cunning workman put the bones of our thighes into joynt, wee shall not returne to him.

Use 3 Further, see here the use of Baptism, even to Infants. The Anabaptists object that Infants can receive no benefit by it,¹ because they yet receive no understanding, no benefit by the word: As if Infants cannot receive nourishment by the Navel, though they can neither take, nor chew, nor suck meat with hand or mouth: Baptism is the Navel by which Infants are nourished in the Church.

Ʋse 3 Further, see here the use of Baptisme, even to Infants. The Anabaptists object that Infants can receive no benefit by it,¹ because they yet receive no understanding, no benefit by the word: As if Infants cannot receive nourishment by the Navell, though they can neither take, nor chew, nor sucke meat with hand or mouth: Baptisme is the Navell by which Infants are nourished in the Church.