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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.
The watchmen that went about the City found me:] These watchmen are the Bishops and Ministers of that time; as also the keepers of the walls may well be the Magistrates; for civill government is a wall of defence to the Church of God.
The watchmen that went about the Citie found me:] These watchmen are the Bishops and Ministers of that time; as also the keepers of the wals may well bee the Magistrates; for civill government is a wall of defence to the Church of God.
They found me,] And yet the Church enquireth not of them, as she had done before of other watchmen,* Have you not seen him whom my soul loves? for she knew these watchmen were of another spirit, rather wolves in sheeps clothing, and more ready to beat her from Christ, then to bring her to Christ. They smote me with censures of excommunications, as Gregory the third Pope of Rome did Leo Isauricus ⟨p. 152⟩