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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.
A garden:]1 The Church is here so called, as verse 13. an orchard; or as it is in the original, a Paradise, as if this were the garden of Eden. All the world is as a wilderness, or at least a wild field; only, the Church is Gods garden or orchard, in these three respects,
A garden:]1 The Church is here so called, as verse 13. an orchard; or as it is in the originall, a Paradise, as if this were the garden of Eden. All the world is as a wildernesse, or at least a wilde field; onely, the Church is Gods garden or orchard, in these three respects,
- 1Ver. 12.
First, as the garden of Paradise was the habitation of Adam in the estate of innocency, so is the Church of all those who are renewed into innocency.
Secondly, as in that garden were all manner of pleasant and wholesome ⟨p. 131⟩herbs and trees growing, so in the Church are all manner of useful and savoury spirits.
Secondly, as in that garden were all manner of pleasant and wholesome ⟨p. 131⟩hearbs and trees growing, so in the Church are all manner of usefull and savoury spirits.