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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 8: 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, in his charge to the ⟨p. 246⟩Church, that he may hear her companions hearkening unto her, ver. 13.
Secondly, in his charge to the ⟨p. 246⟩Church, that he may heare her companions hearkening unto her, ver. 13.
Secondly, by the Churches prayer unto Christ, that he may hasten the translating of them into heaven in the end of the world, ver. 14.
Who is this that cometh, &c.] Who these Churches should be that remain to be called after the conversion of the Jews and Gentiles, we cannot conceive any more fitly than the Churches of Assyria; secondly, of Egypt, of which we read Isa. 19. 23. 25. When a Church shall be elected among the Jews, signified by Ezekiels goodly Temple, the water of Gods Spirit shall flow from thence Eastward,1 go down into the Desert, and from thence spread themselves far and near.
Who is this that commeth, &c.] Who these Churches should be that remaine to be called after the conversion of the Jewes and Gentiles, we cannot conceive any more fitly than the Churches of Assyria; secondly, of Egypt, of which we read Isa. 19. 23. 25. When a Church shall bee elected among the Jewes, signified by Ezekiels goodly Temple, the water of Gods Spirit shall flow from thence Eastward,