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

The estate of common Christians set out by the hair, and of the Ministers set out by the teeth, and of the Church Governors set forth by the piece of Pomegranate, was the same in the Church reformed, as in the Primitive Church,¹ where the description of these parts is used, and here repeated only with this difference: The teeth are not so even cut in reformed Churches as in Christs time; some of them exceed their Brethren in Authority and Jurisdiction, whereas those were framed to more brotherly love in Christs time; whence the teeth they are said to be even cut, which in these teeth is here left out; yet both the Ministers of higher and lower rank, were as sheep flocking and consorting together, washed with the Laver of Regeneration, fruitful and powerful in their Ministry, and therefore are here described, as a flock ⟨p. 179⟩of sheep come up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, ²and none is barren among them.

The estate of common Christians set out by the haire, and of the Ministers set out by the teeth, and of the Church Governours set forth by the piece of Pomgranat, was the same in the Church reformed, as in the Primitive Church,¹ where the description of these parts is used, and here repeated onely with this difference: The teeth are not so even cut in reformed Churches as in Christs time; some of them exceed their Brethren in Authority and Jurisdiction, whereas those were framed to more brotherly love in Christs time; whence the teeth they are said to bee even cut, which in these teeth is here left out; yet both the Ministers of higher and lower ranke, were as sheepe flocking and consorting together, washed with the Laver of Regeneration, fruitfull and powerfull in their Ministry, and therefore are here described, as a flock ⟨p. 179⟩of sheepe come up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, ²and none is barren among them.