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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.
If she be a door.] That is, if she have faithful Ministers, which as a door, open the way to Christ, that the people may go in and out, and find pasture, in him: We will enclose her with boards of Cedar.] Cedar is a Timber that will neither rot, nor breed worms, and so will endure always; Whence it was that the Heathen made their Simulacra Deorum, 1Images of their gods of this wood, to make them seem eternal. These Sister-Churches then promise, that if their little sister of Egypt have any faithful Ministers, they will provide for their safety and peace, that they be not discouraged, ⟨p. 254⟩nor disturbed in their function.
If she be a doore.] That is, if she have faithfull Ministers, which as a doore, open the way to Christ, that the people may go in and out, and find pasture, in him: We will enclose her with boards of Cedar.] Cedar is a Timber that will neither rot, nor breed wormes, and so will endure alwaies; Whence it was that the Heathen made their Simulacbra Deorum, 1Images of their gods of this wood, to make them seeme eternall. These Sister-Churches then promise, that if their little sister of Egypt have any faithfull Ministers, they will provide for their safety and peace, that they bee not discouraged, ⟨p. 254⟩nor disturbed in their function.
- 1Plin. lib. 13. cap▪ 5.
I am a wall,1 and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.