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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34663	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 ...	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6410; ESTC R20552	96,952	268

themselves farre and neere This Desert or Wildernesse Eastward from Iudah is the Wildernesse of Arabia whither Spirituall graces shall be conveyed by some comming from Ierusalem and from thence they shall bee further carried into the East Countries to the gathering and conversion of the Assyrians and others Whence it is that Church arising from the Wildernesse of Arabia is said to leane upon her beloved in an Arabian word as when the holy Ghost was to speak of the Babylonian Captivity or Winter being past he useth the Babylonian or Caldean word So then when the Churches of Iudea shall see such a goodly Church spring from small helpe out of the Wildernesse of Arabia beyond their expectation they shall say of her Who is this that commeth out of the Wildernesse leaning upon her beloved trusting by faith on him and thereby attaining and enjoying fellowship with him for to leane is put as an act of faith or trusting and the gesture implieth familiar love It raised thee under an apple tree Christ or the Church of the Jewes by his power raised up his Church by the meanes of some inferior Magistrate resembled here by an Apple tree as before For though hee was not so high and mighty as the Cedars of Lebanon or the Okes of Bashan yet eminent he was and his shadow good and his fruit cordiall and comfortable And the meanes of the gathering of this Church being at first but an inferiour Magistrate the Church had more need and use of faith to leane upon her beloved when soveraigne authority did not countenance the worke There thy mother brought thee forth To wit the Mother-Church of the Jewes or the Catholique which is the Mother of us all Set me as a seale upon thy heart as a seale upon thine arme for love is strong as death jealousie is cruell as the grave the coales thereof are coales of fire which hath a most vehement flame Set me as a seale upon thine heart as a seale upon thine arme That is let me be deep engraven as a seale is into thine heart or affection and as a seale on thine arme let me be continually in thy sight and remembrance And because the heart is the seat of the will and the arme of strength therefore she desireth his deep affection and mighty strength and power alwaies to be present with her for her comfort and peace For love is strong as death Death sheweth his strength First in subduing all sorts of people high and low young and old Secondly accepting no compassion nor yeelding to any opposition but going through with his worke such strength of love shal this Church shew to Christ subduing all before her to the obedience of Christ and not suffering any impediment to detaine her from him Iealousie is cruell as the grave Jealousie is a mixt affection of zeale or fervent love and carries at any corrivalls a rage with wrath against them So fervent then shall the zealous love of this Church be to Christ that she may not endure any such things as shall steale away the peoples hearts from Christ or alienate or lessen his affection to her but as the grave First shee shall devoure all such things and bury them out of sight And Secondly there hold them under for ever The coales thereof are coales of fire which have a most vehement flame The ardency of this love shall as coales of fire First enflame her in all her services to Christ Secondly burne up as stubble all impediments First All inward green lusts Secondly outward entanglements Vehement flame Hebr. Flames of God that is excellent or extraordinary for in Scripture Phrase the things of God are transcendently excellent as the Harpes of God the Trees of God Flames of God divine and vehement and indeed this vehement love being kindled by Gods heavenly Spirit cannot be quenched with earthly things Many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drowne it if a man would give all the substance of his house for love it would utterly be contemned That is neither adversities though never so many or deep or strong as many waters and floods shall withdraw this love from Christ nor all the treasures and pleasures and credit which the substance of any mans house might procure us shall be of any reckoning in comparison of Christ to withhold our hearts from him We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we doe for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for Wee have a little sister c. The Church of Iudea and Assyria hearing of some good people growing up and comming on in Egypt they are solicitous what course to take for them for their growth and establishment A little sister In comparison of the Jewes or Assyrians for but five Cities in the Land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan and one of them shall be called the City of destruction And she hath no breasts No Ministers to give to them the sincere milk of the word or the meanes of consolation in their oppressions and distresses In the day when she shal be spoken for When the fulnesse of time shall come that she shall grow up to such a multitude of Professors as may bee fit to have a setled Church established amongst them for there is a company grown up to be a fit Spouse for Christ When there are so many good Christians as may constitute a well ordered Church If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a doore we will enclose her with boards of Cedar If she be a wall we will build That is if she have a Christian Magistracy for the Magistrate is a wall First high to keep out invasions of enemies even so doth he keepe out forraigne evills from breaking in upon his people Secondly close to keepe in his people within bounds from breaking out into disorder Thirdly firme whereon to reare if occasion be a silver Palace whereon to lay the frame of a good motion or course to bee taken for Publique good Fourthly a Wall of partition to divide betweene right and wrong to give every man his own We will build upon her a silver palace We will make her garment honourable and wealthy If she be a doore That is if she have faithfull Ministers which as a doore open the way to Christ that the people may go in and out and find pasture in him We will enclose her with boards of Cedar Cedar is a Timber that will neither rot nor breed wormes and so will endure alwaies Whence it was that the Heathen made their Simulacbra Deorum Images of their gods of this wood to make them seeme eternall These Sister-Churches then promise that if their little sister of Egypt have any faithfull Ministers they will provide for their safety and peace that they bee not discouraged nor disturbed in their function I am