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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.
Fourthly, for her thriving under weight pressing it down.
Fourthly, for her thriving under weight pressing it downe.
Fifthly, for her easiness to be climbed, having many boughs, whereon to stay hands and feet:1 So shall the Church be eminent for uprightness therein, for growing up even against all oppositions of Gog and Magog, for ready entertaining of all the faithful that shall come to her.
Fifthly, for her easinesse to be climbed, having many boughes, whereon to stay hands and feet:1 So shall the Church bee eminent for uprightnesse thererein, for growing up even against all oppositions of Gog and Magog, for ready entertaining of all the faithfull that shall come to her.
- 1Plin. lib. 13. cap. 4.
Thy breasts are like the clusters of the vine-grapes.] Their Ministers such like in sour respects,
Thy brests are like the clusters of the vine-grapes.] Their Ministers such like in soure respects,