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

Use 10 Tenthly, this may let us see the duty of Magistrates; if Ministers be doors, it should be their care to hem them in with boards of Cedar, to provide for their security: it is the duty of every Magistrate and member to hem them in, that no enemy may be able to oppose them, but that they may be without fear among them, as it is^*, See that Timothy be without fear among you.

Ʋse 10 Tenthly, this may let us see the duty of Magistrates; if Ministers bee doores, it should bee their care to hem them in with boards of Cedar, to provide for their security: it is the duty of every Magistrate and member to hem them in, that no enemy may be able to oppose them, but that they may be without fear among them, as it is^*, See that Timothy be without feare among you.

1. *1 Cor. 16. 10.

Use 11 Eleventhly, this may let us see a Church enjoying a faithful Ministry, and a Christian Magistracy, enjoyeth a special favour from Christ.

Ʋse 11 Eleventhly, this may let us see a Church enjoying a faithfull Ministry, and a Christian Migistracy, enjoyeth a speciall favour from Christ.

Use 12 Twelfthly, this lets us see what great care Christ will one day have of his Church, though Lyons, Dragons, and Bears have broken in upon the Church to devour it; and besides many Foxes have sought to subvert it, and to cut the sinews of it asunder, yet when Christ shall take the government of it into his hands, there shall be no enemy to offer violence to it: When the great Leviathan shall be punished, even Leviathan