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

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⟩and solemnly convinced and condemned the worship of Images: As also when Charles the Great did the like some forty years after, at a Synod in Frankford.

My hands dropped with myrrhe, and my fingers with sweet swelling myrrhe, 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 myrrhe, from further persecution, when Constantine the sonne of Leo Isauricus, called the seventh Constantinopolitan Councell, and there truly ⟨p. 150⟩and solemnly convinced and condemned the worship of Images: As also when Charles the Great did the like some fortie yeares after, at a Synod in Frankford.

I opened to my beloved,¹ but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gave me no answer.

I opened to my beloved,¹ but my beloved had withdrawne himselfe, and was gone: my soule failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not finde him: I called him, but he gave me no answer.

1. 1Verse 6.