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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.
Of Queens he reckoneth threescore, of Concubines fourscore. A certain number put for an uncertain; and of Churches, the less pure the greater.
Of Queens he reckoneth threescore, of Concubines fourescore. A certaine number put for an uncertaine; and of Churches, the lesse pure the greater.
Damosels he reckons without number.
First, partly, because they have been exceeding many of them, and are still too many.
Secondly, partly, because Christ maketh no account of them, as if they were with him nullius numeri, not worth the reckoning.
But my Dove,1