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

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,¹ goe downe into the Desert, and from thence spread themselves farre and neere.

1. 1Ezek. 47. 1. 9.

This Desert, or Wilderness Eastward from Judah, is the Wilderness of Arabia, whither Spiritual graces shall be conveyed by some coming from Jerusalem, and from thence they shall be further carried into the East Countries, to the gathering, and conversion ⟨p. 247⟩of the Assyrians and others: Whence it is, that Church arising from the Wilderness of Arabia, is said to lean upon her beloved in an Arabian word; as when the holy Ghost was to speak of the Babylonian Captivity (or Winter) being past, he useth the Babylonian or Chaldean word.