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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.
Thus the Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hassia were proscribed as rebels against the Emperor, and yet their cause was beautiful and good. The faithful at that time in England were burned in King Henry the eighth's days, as Heretics, and refractory Subjects or Rebels, yet beautiful in Gods sight.
Thus the Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hassia were proscribed as rebels against the Emperour, and yet their cause was beautifull and good. The faithfull at that time in England were burned in King Henry the eighth's dayes, as Hereticks, and refractory Subjects or Rebels, yet beautifull in Gods sight.
Comely as Jerusalem.] In process of time the Church wore out the suspicion and disgrace of heresy, and separation and rebellion, and was countenanced and adorned by Royal Laws in the days of King Edward the sixth, and by Laws of the Empire tolerating the Protestant Princes, so that the Church seemed as Jerusalem, the state of Princes, the true ⟨p. 176⟩Church of God,1 & at unity also within it self, wherein the comeliness consisted: for, as Jerusalem had been three Cities, Zion, Salem, Millo, and all three were knit together into one Jerusalem: so the three differences between Lutherans & Calvinists in doctrine and discipline at Geneva, were all compacted together in brotherly love, in their harmony of confessions.
Comely as Jerusalem.] In processe of time the Church wore out the suspition and disgrace of heresie, and separation and rebellion, and was countenanced and adorned by Royall Lawes in the daies of King Edward the sixth, and by Lawes of the Empire tolerating the Protestant Princes, so that the Church seemed as Jerusalem, the state of Princes, the true ⟨p. 176⟩Church of God,1