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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.
Thy two breasts (the Teachers of that Church) are like two young Roes: For their agility, skipping up and down to suckle the converts; implying that the first Ministry of the Jews, at the conversion of that people shall rather be as the Evangelists, bound to no certain place, than as Pastors fixed to any settled Congregation, which yet outwardly they shall be.
Thy two brests (the Teachers of that Church) are like two young Roes: For their agility, skipping up and down to suckle the converts; implying that the first Ministry of the Jewes, at the conversion of that people shall rather be as the Evangelists, bound to no certain place, than as Pastors fixed to any setled Congregation, which yet outwardly they shall be.
That are twins.]
First, for their likeness in disposition.
First, for their likenesse in disposition.
Secondly, brotherly equality.