A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively…

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.

1. 1Verse 8.

I said, I will go up to the Palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof.] Christ speaks of himself to imply the readiness of his Members to resort and flock to this Church of the Jews; for what Christs Members do by the guidance of his Spirit, he accounteth it his own action. This forwardness ⟨p. 228⟩of the Gentiles to ascend and resort to Jerusalem, is elsewhere foretold more plainly^*.