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

Use 6 Sixthly, observe what manner of persons should be admitted to the Lords Table, and how we should prepare our selves thereto. This heap of wheat is not to be set about with stinking weeds, but with fair lilies: ⟨p. 219⟩Cleanse we ourselves then from all scandalous sins, yea, and from all secret sins, to our best endeavours, so shall we be fit to be set about this heap of wheat, the Lords Table.

Ʋse 6 Sixthly, observe what manner of persons should bee admitted to the Lords Table, and how we should prepare our selves thereto. This heape of wheat is not to bee set about with stinking weeds, but with faire lillies: ⟨p. 219⟩Cleanse wee ourselves then from all scandalous sinnes, yea, and from all secret sinnes, to our best endeavours, so shall we be fit to be set about this heap of wheat, the Lords Table.

Use 7 Seventhly, note that Ministers, to be like Roes, skipping up and down to gather and suckle the children of the Church, is fitter for a Church in gathering, than convenient in a Church constituted; for then the breasts hang in their place like clusters of Grapes upon the branches of the Vine, v. 7, 8 But they must be breasts giving suck, not dry nurses; that is their duty in every estate of the Church. Or if their people be grown up in Christ to fitness for strong meat,¹ then They to be full in a stronger liquor than milk, as clusters of grapes, full of wines.

Ʋse 7 Seventhly, note that Ministers, to be like Roes, skipping up and downe to gather and suckle the children of the Church, is fitter for a Church in gathering, than convenient in a Church constituted; for then the brests hang in their place like clusters of Grapes upon the branches of the Vine, v. 7, 8 But they must be brests giving suck, not dry nurses; that is their duty in every estate of the Church. Or if their people bee growne up in Christ to fitnesse for strong meat,