A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively…

First, that the Church had familiar fellowship with Christ in his holy public ordinances; especially in the main doctrine of pardon of sins by Christs blood alone, and of justification by faith.

First, that the Church had familiar fellowship with Christ in his holy publike ordinances; especially in the maine doctrine of pardon of sins by Christs bloud alone, and of justification by faith.

Secondly, that she enjoyed this fellowship with him, before the time of her deliverance out of a Babylonish, or Romish captivity:^* for the same words ⟨p. 173⟩are used upon the deliverance out of Babel, and enjoying Gods ordinances in their own country; but with this difference: there the Church saith, My beloved is mine, and I am his; because, first, he delivered her out of Babel before he gave her the free use of his ordinances; but here the Church saith, I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; because she first found Christ in his ordinances, before she enjoyed deliverance from subjection to Rome; for Luther preached against the Popes pardons, before he rejected the supremacy of the Pope.

Secondly, that shee enioyed this fellowship with him, before the time of her deliverance out of a Babylonish, or Romish captivity:^* for the same words ⟨p. 173⟩are used upon the deliverance out of Babel, and enjoying Gods ordinances in their owne country; but with this difference: there the Church saith, My beloved is mine, and I am his; because, first, he delivered her out of Babel before hee gave her the free use of his ordinances; but here the Church saith, I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; because shee first found Christ in his ordinances, before shee enjoyed deliverance from subjection to Rome; for Luther preached against the Popes pardons, before he rejected the supremacy of the Pope.