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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.
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,1 then They to be full in a stronger liquor than milke, as clusters of grapes, full of wines.
Use 8 Eighthly, see the beauty and commendation of three cardinal graces:
Ʋse 8 Eightly, see the beauty and commendation of three cardinall graces: