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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.
They wounded me,] With the Canons of the second Council of Nice; whither that Council, assembled in the Temple of Byzantium, & scattered by the people, was afterwards translated by the counsel of the Bishops of Rome. In this Council Images were again restored, to the great grief of the godly, yea to the wounding of their hearts. The sentence of a general Council in the behalf of any error is no small wound to the whole Church.
They wounded me,] With the Canons of the second Councell of Nice; whither that Councell, assembled in the Temple of Byzantium, & scattered by the people, was afterwards translated by the counsell of the Bishops of Rome. In this Councell Images were againe restored, to the great griefe of the godly, yea to the wounding of their hearts. The sentence of a generall Councell in the behalfe of any error is no small wound to the whole Church.
They took away my veil from me,] when they forced the Bishops of Rhodes, Nice, Neo-Caesarea, Hierapolis, and others ⟨p. 153⟩to recantation, who before had worthily opposed Images. To bring men to open recantation, to lay open their nakedness, especially when they recant from the trueth, is to take away the veil.
They tooke away my vaile from me,] when they forced the Bishops of Rhodes, Nice, Neo-Cesarea, Hierapolis, and others ⟨p. 153⟩to recantation, who before had worthily opposed Images. To bring men to open recantation, to lay open their nakednesse, especially when they recant from the trueth, is to take away the vaile.
I charge you,