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

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.

1. 1Vers 6.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm.] That is, let me be deep engraven as a seal is into thine heart or affection, and as a seal on thine arm, let me be continually in thy sight and remembrance. And because the heart is the seat of the