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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 6: 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.
Cant. 6. 1. Whither is thy beloved gone? O thou fairest among women, whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.]
Cant. 6. 1. Whither is thy beloved gone? O thou fairest among women, whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seeke him with thee.]
Use 1 First, we may here see the danger of surfeiting the Church with wealth and pleasures and honour. Constantine had in the first verse inebriated the Church with wealth and honour, and hereupon the Church falleth into a long sleep, which she shook not wholly off for many ages. No wonder then of that speech heard from heaven, Hodiè venenum concidit in Ecclesiam: Now is poison poured or fallen into the Church.
Use 1 First, we may here see the danger of surfetting the Church with wealth and pleasures and honour. Constantine had in the first verse enebriated the Church with wealth and honour, and hereupon the Church falleth into a long sleepe, which shee shook not wholly off for many ages. No wonder then of that speech heard from heaven, Hodiè venenum concidit in Ecclesiam: Now is poyson powred or fallen into the Church.