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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.
Turn away thine eyes, &c.]1 The eyes, as above*, of the Church assembled, are the ministers, or the members considered apart; as first, knowledge; secondly, faith: In both respects the eyes of the Church were wonderful amiable: so that Christ speaketh affectionately to the Church after the manner of Lovers, ravished with the beauty of their Spouses.
Turn away thine eies, &c.]1 The eies, as above*, of the Church assembled, are the ministers, or the members considered apart; as first, knowledge; secondly, faith: In both respects the eies of the Church were wonderfull amiable: so that Christ speaketh affectionatly to the Church after the manner of Lovers, ravished with the beauty of their Spouses.
- 1Verse 5.
- *chap. 4. 9.
Turn away thine eyes, for they have overcome me.]
Turne away thine eyes, for they have overcome me.]
What worthy Ministers did that first age of the Reformed Churches yield?1