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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, 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 as Luther, Calvin, Martin Bucer, Cranmer, Hooper, Ridley, Latimer, &c. What a wonderful measure of heavenly light did they of a sudden bring into the Church? and that out of the middest of darkness and Popery; from whence it was, that the knowledge and faith of the Faithful then was wonderfully enlarged far beyond the ignorance of former times.
What worthy Ministers did that first age of the Reformed Churches yeeld?1 as Luther, Calvin, Martin Bucer, Cranmer, Hooper, Ridley, Latymer, &c. What a wonderfull measure of heavenly light did they of a sudden bring into the Church? and that out of the middest of darknesse and Popery; from whence it was, that the knowledge and faith of the Faithfull then was wonderfully enlarged far beyond the ignorance of former times.
- 1Peter Martyr.
The eyes of the Faithful in Christs time lay under their locks,1 as hindered from clear sight by many errors; but the eyes of the Faithful, now seeing the truth much more plainly, are not hindered by such locks hanging over them: How clear was their faith, that having seen him which was invisible,