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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.
It raised thee under an apple tree.] Christ, or the Church of the Jews by his power raised up his Church by the means of some inferior Magistrate, resembled here by an Apple tree, as before*: For though he was not so high and mighty as the Cedars ⟨p. 248⟩of Lebanon, or the Oaks of Bashan; yet eminent he was, and his shadow good, and his fruit cordial and comfortable.
It raised thee under an apple tree.] Christ, or the Church of the Jewes by his power raised up his Church by the meanes of some inferior Magistrate, resembled here by an Apple tree, as before*: For though hee was not so high and mighty as the Cedars ⟨p. 248⟩of Lebanon, or the Okes of Bashan; yet eminent he was, and his shadow good, and his fruit cordiall and comfortable.
And the means of the gathering of this Church, being at first but an inferior Magistrate; the Church had more need and use of faith to lean upon her beloved, when sovereign authority did not countenance the work.
And the meanes of the gathering of this Church, being at first but an inferiour Magistrate; the Church had more need and use of faith to leane upon her beloved, when soveraigne authority did not countenance the worke.