A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively…

My bowels were moved for him.] These good Princes, and other Christians at that time were strongly and inwardly affected to the purity of Gods worship, in which alone Christ is found.

I rose up to open to my beloved,¹ and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet swelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

I rose up to open to my beloved,¹ and my hands dropped with myrrhe, and my fingers with sweet swelling myrrh, upon the handles of the locke.

1. 1Verse 5.

I rose up to open to my beloved.] The Church under these good Emperors rose up out of the blankets of these humane inventions wherewith she was covered, in a bed of sleeping devotion, and endeavoured to restore openly the simplicity of Gods worship, rejecting Images and Idolatry.

I rose up to open to my beloved.] The Church under these good Emperours rose up out of the blankets of these humane inventions wherewith shee was covered, in a bed of sleeping devotion, and endeavoured to restore openly the simplicity of Gods worship, rejecting Images and Idolatry.