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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 4: 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.
Thirdly, the looseness of the belly.
Thirdly, the loosenesse of the belly.
Secondly, for comforting and strengthening the stomach and bowels, to the keeping back all fainting†. This office the Ecclesiastical governors of the Church do perform to it; they repress the heat of fallings out among brethren, the notorious abuses, the looseness, or distemprednesse of the people; they comfort the feeble, and bind up the weak, and are therefore fitly resembled ⟨p. 108⟩by Pomegranates, yea by a piece of a Pomegranate: for it is not the whole body of the Pomegranate that doth this; but it, broken in pieces, by his juice and rind is medicinable.
Secondly, for comforting and strengthning the stomacke and bowels, to the keeping backe all fainting†. This office the Ecclesiasticall governours of the Church doe performe to it; they represse the heat of fallings out among brethren, the notorious abuses, the loosenesse, or distemprednesse of the people; they comfort the feeble, and binde up the weake, and are therefore fitly resembled ⟨p. 108⟩by Pomegranates, yea by a piece of a Pomegranate: for it is not the whole body of the Pomegranate that doth this; but it, broken in pieces, by his juice and rinde is medicinable.
- †Fernelius Method. medend. lib. 5. cap. 3.