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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.
Use 7 Seventhly, this may teach us, not to ⟨p. 182⟩wonder if Christian assemblies be at first suspected, as Tirzah for sedition, separation, &c. It is the lot of Gods Church, which when it groweth up to be better known, will appear to be as it is, comely as Jerusalem.
Ʋse 7 Seventhly, this may teach us, not to ⟨p. 182⟩wonder if Christian assemblies bee at first suspected, as Tirzah for sedition, separation, &c. It is the lot of Gods Church, which when it groweth up to be better known, will appear to be as it is, comely as Ierusalem.
Use 8 Eighthly, from the description of the Church here by her Members, Eyes Hair, Teeth, Temples; gather here again in the same Uses made of the like description, Chap. 4. verse 1, 2, 3. pag. in Uses 2, 3, 4. there expressed.
Ʋse 8 Eightly, from the description of the Church here by her Members, Eyes Haire, Teeth, Temples; gather here againe in the same Uses made of the like description, Chap. 4. verse 1, 2, 3. pag. in Uses 2, 3, 4. there expressed.
Use 9 Ninthly, observe the Reformed Churches to be the same that the Primitive Church in Christs time, was in sundry principal Members and respects; and therefore the same Members in the same sort described, word for word; yea, such fellowship as the Church of the Jews had with Christ coming out of Babylon,1 The same have the Reformed Churches with Christ coming out of Romish Babylon.