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

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.

My hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet swelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.] The endeavours of the Church were sweet & delectable and acceptable to Christ, and savoury to the people, to preserve them, as myrrh, from further persecution, when Constantine the son of Leo Isauricus, called the seventh Constantinopolitan Council, and there truly ⟨p. 150⟩