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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.
Tell him I am sick of love.] That is, in your prayers acknowledge that the Church is ready to fail and perish for want of his presence and fellowship in his public ordinances.
Tell him I am sicke of love.] That is, in your prayers acknowledge that the Church is ready to faile and perish for want of his presence and fellowship in his publike ordinances.
What is thy beloved more then another beloved,1 O thou fairest among women? &c.]
- 1Verse 9.
The Christians, the daughters of Jerusalem, from this day forward, to the days of Petrus Waldus (of whom the Waldenses took their name) were very ignorant of Christ, and therefore they ask who he ⟨p. 154⟩was, and wherein better then another: But in stead of him they magnified the Church; Holy mother Church was all in all with them: Her they acknowledged to be fairest among women, though they see nothing in Christ better then in another.
The Christians, the daughters of Jerusalem, from this day forward, to the daies of Petrus Waldus (of whom the Waldenses tooke their name) were very ignorant of Christ, and therefore they ask who hee ⟨p. 154⟩was, and wherein better then another: But in stead of him they magnified the Church; Holy mother Church was all in all with them: Her they acknowledged to be fairest among women, though they see nothing in Christ better then in another.