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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 7: 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.
Secondly, as it shall be, grown up to her Stature and Maturity, v. 6, 7.
Secondly, as it shall be, growne up to her Stature and Maturity, v. 6, 7.
Thirdly, as it shall be further enlarged by the access of the Gentiles, ver. 8. 10.
Thirdly, as it shall be further enlarged by the accesse of the Gentiles, ver. 8. 10.
Fourthly, as it shall multiply and stretch it self into the Country villages, and throughout the Land of Israel, v. 11.—v. 4. of Chap. 8.
Fourthly, as it shall multiply and stretch it selfe into the Country villages, and throughout the Land of Israel, v. 11.—v. 4. of Chap. 8.
That in ver. 11. the Church inviteth Christ, and with him her self to have recourse into the Country Villages, is plain in the words of the former verses, which set forth a threefold estate of the Shulamite converted, is evident by the Repetition of the verses, ver. 3. 7. 8. and all with some difference; and the breasts are so described, ver. 3. and set forth an unsettled Ministry, quickly stirring up and down to gather this Church and the scattered Members of it.