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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.
This Church so affecting Christ was Antioch, the first Church of the Gentiles, seated between Amana and Lebanon: for Barnabas, seeing the grace of God upon them, was not a little glad of it, so that his spirit was stirred up to exhort them to continue and grow up*: yea, he went out and sought Saul, to bring him among them*; and they both spent a whole year there, and did win much people, so that that Church was first called Christian,* they first had their husbands name, the name of Christ first put ⟨p. 120⟩upon them, for the forwardness of his love to them, and theirs to him.
This Church so affecting Christ was Antioch, the first Church of the Gentiles, seated betweene Amana and Lebanon: for Barnabas, seeing the grace of God upon them, was not a little glad of it, so that his spirit was stirred up to exhort them to continue and grow up*: yea, hee went out and sought Saul, to bring him among them*; and they both spent a whole yeare there, and did winne much people, so that that Church was first called Christian,* they first had their husbands name, the name of Christ first put ⟨p. 120⟩upon them, for the forwardnesse of his love to them, and theirs to him.
- *Act. 11. 23, 24.
- *verse 25, 26.
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