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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.
Secondly, not stirring up and down as Roes, from place to place, but hanging in their places.
Thirdly, full of strong liquor of sound Doctrine.
Fourthly, requiring some pressure in urging (though little) before they empty themselves, but upon easy pressure doing it plentifully.
Fourthly, requiring some pressure in urging (though little) before they empty themselves, but upon easie pressure doing it plentifully.
I said,1 I will go up to the Palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.
I said,1 I will goe up to the Palme-tree, I will take hold of the boughes thereof: now also thy brests shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.