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

Use 1 The use of this is, first, to teach us ⟨p. 258⟩that the Nations of the Gentiles shall not be cast off from the fellowship of the Church, when the Jews are called, as the Jews were out of the Church, that the Gentiles might be grafted in^*; but even after their calling, new Churches of the Gentiles shall be brought in; yea, their conversion shall bring from the dead into the world:² What shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? yea, the Gentiles shall bring their glory to it, ³yea, the cursed Canaanite shall not be excluded from partaking in this blessing^*. How much more may we hope then that these Churches of Christendom, which have suffered so much with Christ, and for him, under the Dragon, and the Beast, and the Turk, shall partake with the glory of these Churches of the Jews when the time shall come.

Ʋse 1 The use of this is, first, to teach us ⟨p. 258⟩that the Nations of the Gentiles shall not be cast off from the fellowship of the Church, when the Jewes are called, as the Jewes were out of the Church, that the Gentiles might bee grafted in^*; but even after their calling, new Churches of the Gentiles shall bee brought in; yea, their conversion shall bring from the dead into the world:² What shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? yea, the Gentiles shall bring their glory to it, ³yea, the cursed Canaanite shall not be excluded from partaking in this blessing^*