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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.
First, because the virtues of these fruits and spices are especially seen when they are cut and poured out, or beaten, or burned, or bruised: So it is with the graces of Gods children; they are chiefly exercised by the hard dealing of persecutors.
First, because the vertues of these fruits and spices are especially seen when they are cut and powred out, or beaten, or burned, or bruised: So it is with the graces of Gods children; they are chiefly exercised by the hard dealing of persecutors.
Secondly, there was in the faithful then persecuted a resemblance of the virtues of these fruits and spices.
Secondly, there was in the faithfull then persecuted a resemblance of the vertues of these fruits and spices.
Pomegranates repress and restrain1 ⟨p. 133⟩the heat of Choler, the malignity of fevers, the looseness of the belly, they also comfort the stomach and bowels, and prevent faintings and swoonings.
Pomegranates represse and restraine1 ⟨p. 133⟩the heat of Choler, the malignity of fevers, the loosenesse of the belly, they also comfort the stomacke and bowels, and prevent faintings and swoonings.