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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 5: 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, see the wonderful use of afflictions and persecutions to the Church; what savoury, and wholesome and precious graces are thereby exercised; yea, how mightily doth the Church then spread when it is most restrained?
Use 5 Fifthly, see the wonderfull use of afflictions and persecutions to the Church; what savoury, and wholesome and precious graces are thereby exercised; yea, how mightily doth the Church then spread when it is most restrained?
Use 6 Sixthly, see then what the weapons of the Church were against their persecutors; not daggers, dags, powder, pistols, rebellions, treasons, &c. but prayers for more seasonable times.
Use 7 Seventhly, we are to be stirred up to ⟨p. 141⟩pray, that God would now stir up a wholesome Northwinde, to blow favourably upon the Churches beyond the seas, and strongly against their enemies.
Use 7 Seventhly, we are to be stirred up to ⟨p. 141⟩pray, that God would now stirre up a wholesome Northwinde, to blow favourably upon the Churches beyond the seas, and strongly against their enemies.