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

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.

There thy mother brought thee forth.] To wit, the Mother-Church of the Jews, or the Catholic, which is the Mother of us all.¹

There thy mother brought thee forth.] To wit, the Mother-Church of the Jewes, or the Catholique, which is the Mother of us all.¹

1. 1Gal. 4. 26.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart,¹ as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame.

Set me as a seale upon thy heart,¹ as a seale upon thine arme, for love is strong as death, jealousie is cruell as the grave: the coales thereof are coales of fire which hath a most vehement flame.