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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.
The only one of her Mother, 1the choicest one of her that bare her.] In the Hebrew phrase, the whole is the Mother, the parts are the Members. The true Catholic Church of Christ is the Mother of all Reformed Daughters; and these Daughter Churches that are most chaste and mild, and undefiled, they are best esteemed, and best beloved of the Mother Catholic Church, as coming nearest to her in ⟨p. 192⟩chastity, innocency, purity, &c.
The onely one of her Mother, 1the choycest one of her that bare her.] In the Hebrew phrase, the whole is the Mother, the parts are the Members. The true Catholique Church of Christ is the Mother of all Reformed Daughters; and these Daughter Churches that are most chaste and milde, and undefiled, they are best esteemed, and best beloved of the Mother Catholique Church, as comming neerest to her in ⟨p. 192⟩chastity, innocency, purity, &c.
- 1Verse 9▪
The Daughters saw her, 1and blessed her; yea, the Queens and the Concubines, and they praised her.] These Daughters, whether they be the Members of the unspotted Churches mentioned in the former verse, either of both, together with these Churches that are as Queens and Concubines, do give honourable testimony of these Congregations that are most reformed, and wish them all prosperity, the good things of this life, and a better.