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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.
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open.] Christ used good means to awaken his spouse, and to raise her up from this carnal security.
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open.] Christ used good meanes to awaken his spouse, and to raise her up from this carnall security.
First, he calleth to her in the voice of sundry good Divines, who complained of the intolerable burden of humane inventions, wherewith the common Christians were defiled and dabbled, as Christ here complains: His locks & hair were full of the drops of the night;1 drops with coldness of Religion and darkness of ignorance engendered.
First, he calleth to her in the voice of sundry good Divines, who complained of the intolerable burthen of humane inventions, wherewith the common Christians were defiled and dabled, as Christ here complaines: His locks & haire were full of the drops of the night;1 drops with coldnesse of Religion and darknesse of ignorance ingendred.
- 1August. ep. 119.
Secondly, he knocked by the raps and blows which Constantius, Valens, and Julian gave to the Church; the two former persecuting the orthodox Bishops and Ministers and other Christians, in favour of the Arians; and Julian making flat Apostasy ⟨p. 146⟩