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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.
Use 5 Fifthly, this may teach us how to knit the heart of Christ to us in ravishing affection, by cleaving to Christ with settled purpose*, by abounding in helpfulness to the Saints, by procuring and keeping faithful shepherds, by burdening the Church not with many chains of laws,2 but only with few, and those necessary: all these are formerly mentioned in the Church of Antioch. As ever we desire to have the Lord Jesus Christ to love us, let us grow in knowledge, faith, and all saving graces of his Spirit, and hereby ⟨p. 128⟩show our love to him, and then we shall find Christ ravished with our love.
Use 5 Fifthly, this may teach us how to knit the heart of Christ to us in ravishing affection, by cleaving to Christ with setled purpose*, by abounding in helpfulnesse to the Saints, by procuring and keeping faithfull shepherds, by burthening the Church not with many chains of lawes,2 but onely with few, and those necessary: all these are formerly mentioned in the Church of Antioch. As ever we desire to have the Lord Jesus Christ to love us, let us grow in knowledge, faith, and all saving graces of his Spirit, and hereby ⟨p. 128⟩shew our love to him, and then we shall finde Christ ravished with our love.
- *Act. 11. 23.
- 2Verse. 9.