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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.
Use 8 Eighthly, this may teach Magistrates to be as walls to keep out all disorder, stand up as a wall if there come in disorders, stand so high that they cannot come over; if any would go a begging, keep them in; restrain beggary, idleness, drunkenness, whoredom, and profaneness, all evil courses; be as a wall, whereon to rear a silver Palace for ever; whereon to lay the frame of a good motion, course, or order, to be taken for the public good; any good motion made, or to be made; is as a wall to divide equally to all men their right.
Ʋse 8 Eightly, this may teach Magistrates to be as walls to keep out all disorder, stand up as a wall if there come in disorders, stand so high that they cannot come over; if any would goe a begging, keep them in; restraine beggery, idlenesse, drunkennesse, whordome, and prophanenesse, all evill courses; be as a wall, whereon to reare a silver Palace for ever; whereon to lay the frame of a good motion, course, or order, to be taken for the publique good; any good motion made, or to be made; is as a wall to divide equally to all men their right.
Use 9 Ninthly, this may teach Ministers to be as doors to open a wide entrance for the people to come to Christ; not as those Scribes and Pharisees, which Christ complains of*, which neither enter in themselves, nor would suffer others: such are rather Port-cullises, yea, gates of Hell.
Ʋse 9 Ninthly, this may teach Ministers to be as doores to open a wide entrance for the people to come to Christ; not as those Scribes and Pharisees, which Christ complaines of*, which neither enter in themselves, nor would suffer others: such are rather Port-cullises, yea, gates of Hell.