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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.
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wines. Hebr. Like good wine, going to my beloved most straightly and rightly.] That is, the Doctrine of the Church shall be as ever any most sweet and powerful, and comfortable, and generous wine; it shall ever go, or tend directly to Christ, always aiming at the preaching of him.
And the roofe of thy mouth like the best wines. Hebr. Like good wine, going to my beloved most straightly and rightly.] That is, the Doctrine of the Church shall bee as ever any most sweet and powerfull, and comfortable, and generous wine; it shall ever goe, or tend directly to Christ, alwaies aiming at the preaching of him.
To go rightly, or straightly, implieth the strength and generousness of wine, when it sparkleth upward in the cup, as Prov. 23. 31. which here expresseth the lively vigour of the ⟨p. 230⟩