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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.
Thirdly, by giving good example of life, to have no Officers hanging about them of base demeanour, exactors, promoters, contentious persons, but such as may execute it themselves and their Ministers, and for public Ordinances of Gods worship; it is no ⟨p. 221⟩disparagement to Magistrates to behave themselves reverendly in them, and to submit themselves unto them as unto Christ.
Thirdly, by giving good example of life, to have no Officers hanging about them of base demeanor, exactors, promotors, contentious persons, but such as may execute it themselves and their Ministers, and for publique Ordinances of Gods worship; it is no ⟨p. 221⟩disparagement to Magistrates to behave themselves reverendly in them, and to submit themselves unto them as unto Christ.
Use 10 Tenthly, from this complete description of the beauty of the Church in all her parts, observe,
Ʋse 10 Tenthly, from this compleat description of the beauty of the Church in all her parts, observe,
First, that the Church was never so completely beautiful in all her parts, as it shall be when the Jews are called. The Apostolic Primitive Church, though all fair, yet wanted this headlike Carmel, a Christian Magistrate, yea and some purity of the Sacrament.1
First, that the Church was never so compleatly beautifull in all her parts, as it shall be when the Jewes are called. The Apostolique Primitive Church, though all fair, yet wanted this headlike Carmel, a Christian Magistrate, yea and some purity of the Sacrament.