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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.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens.] The Participle being of the Feminine Gender, showeth that it is the Church, not Christ that is here spoken to, ⟨p. 256⟩who is said to dwell in the garden; to wit, in the particular Churches, as the sea dwelleth in each particular Country sea; the German sea, the Spanish sea, the Baltic sea, &c. So the Catholic Church is divided into particular Churches, or the Jewish Mother Church dwelleth by her authority and directions in all other Churches.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens.] The Participle being of the Feminine Gender, sheweth that it is the Church, not Christ that is here spoken to, ⟨p. 256⟩who is said to dwell in the garden; to wit, in the particular Churches, as the sea dwelleth in each particular Countrey sea; the German sea, the Spanish sea, the Balticke sea, &c. So the Catholique Church is divided into particular Churches, or the Jewish Mother Church dwelleth by her authority and directions in all other Churches.