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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.
Doves, diving in rivers of waters, dive their bellies deep into the waters; so that their eyes look close and narrowly upon it.
Doves, diving in rivers of waters, dive their bellies deepe into the waters; so that their eyes looke close and narrowly upon it.
First, the eyes are here set forth by their care of the Church; he is not so far off removed from it, that he had need of the Pope to be his visible Vicar to look to it.
First, the eyes are here set forth by their care of the Church; he is not so farre off removed from it, that he had need of the Pope to be his visible Vicar to looke to it.