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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.
Sixthly, by the earnestness of her calling given her, Return, Return, four times repeated.
Sixthly, by the earnestnesse of her calling given her, Return, Return, four times repeated.
Who is this that looketh forth?] These words express the unexpected admirable arising of a new Church;1 and that after the Reformed Churches of the Gentiles; she is a Shulamite, alluding to Salem the ancient name of Jerusalem, ⟨p. 194⟩the Mother City of the JEWS.
Who is this that looketh forth?] These words expresse the unexpected admirable arising of a new Church;1 and that after the Reformed Churches of the Gentiles; she is a Shulamite, alluding to Salem the ancient name of Ierusalem, ⟨p. 194⟩the Mother City of the JEWES.
- 1Chap. 3. 6.
This Church then thus arising, is that of the Jews which we look for; whose beginning for sudden conversion of multitudes, shall be admirable to themselves and others.1
This Church then thus arising, is that of the Jewes which we looke for; whose beginning for sudden conversion of multitudes, shall be admirable to themselves and others.