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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.
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⟩from the Church, and subtly supplanting the nursing of Religion.
Secondly, he knocked by the raps and blowes 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 Apostacy ⟨p. 146⟩from the Church, and subtlely supplanting the nursing of Religion.
I put off my coat,1 how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
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I have put off my coat.] Thus upon sleight pretence the Church refuseth to open to Christ: she pretends, Religion & the worship of God would appear too naked, if it were not clothed with goodly & comely humane inventions; how then should she in so naked a manner open to Christ? Humane inventions do not clothe Religion, or the Church professing it with any comely ornaments; but, as it were with warm blankets, lap her and lull her asleep in the bed of perfunctory worship and carnal security.