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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.
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.1
Secondly, in that he beginneth this description from the feet, and so ascendeth to the head in order: It may seem the calling of the Jews shall begin at first, rather with some of the lowest people, and so ascend higher and higher to more eminent persons.
Secondly, in that he beginneth this description from the feet, and so ascendeth to the head in order: It may seeme the calling of the Jewes shall begin at first, rather with some of the lowest people, and so ascend higher and higher to more eminent persons.
Thirdly, in that the Church neither here (where so many of her members are set forth) nor in all this Song is described, by the beauty of her hands, or fingers, we must not gather that therefore this Church will be barren ⟨p. 222⟩