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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

many severall Churches To feed in the gardens In processe of time these severall beds of spices companies of Christians grew up to the fashion of just and full Churches in Zurich Stranburgh Brassel Berne Geneva besides those in Hassia and Prussia To feede First both himselfe with his peoples prayers and other worship and obedience Secondly his people with his word and sacraments and other ordinances And to gather lillies that is to gather and call more more faithfull Christians out of a wild field of worldly people into the fellowship of his Church as it were to gather lilies into his garden They are called lillies First for their fairnesse Secondly for excellency or eminency Thirdly for Gods care in providing for them beyond their owne labour and industry I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine he feedeth among the lillies I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine Which words imply foure things First that the Church had familiar fellowship with Christ in his holy publike ordinances especially in the maine doctrine of pardon of sins by Christs bloud alone and of justification by faith Secondly that shee enioyed this fellowship with him before the time of her deliverance out of a Babylonish or Romish captivity for the same words are used upon the deliverance out of Babel and enjoying Gods ordinances in their owne country but with this difference there the Church saith My beloved is mine and I am his because first he delivered her out of Babel before hee gave her the free use of his ordinances but here the Church saith I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine because shee first found Christ in his ordinances before shee enjoyed deliverance from subjection to Rome for Luther preached against the Popes pardons before he rejected the supremacy of the Pope Thirdly their open profession of their fellowship with Christ when the Princes of Germany openly protested against the Masse other corruptions in the Church and avowed the defence of the reformation begun whence they were afterward called Protestants 4 ly Christs gracious protection of those Churches specially in their first beginnings for how should Luther a poor Frier have attempted and gone through with so great a work against such great and generall opposition and in the end die quietly in his bed if Christ had not held him as it were in his armes He feedeth among the lilies Hee refresheth himselfe and strengtheneth his people conversing amongst them who strove for whitenesse and purity and reformation Thou art beautifull O my love as Tirzah comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army with banners Thou art beautifull as Tirzah Tirzah was the chiefe City of the Kingdome of Israel after they had separated themselves from Judah untill Samaria was afterward builded The Citie and Governers of it the people having recourse to it for judgement rather then to Jerusalem were at first in disgrace and obloquie with the Jewes for their schisme and separation from the house of David at Jerusalem and for her rebellion against the King of Judah but this did not diminish her beauty because this separation was from God Afterward Tirzah lost her beauty by erecting the golden Calves and falling off not onely from the idolatry of Solomon wherein they did well but from the true worship of God restored and continued in the Temple of Jerusalem But Solomon here speaketh of Tirzah while shee reteined her beauty And indeed the reformed Churches were in this like unto Tirzah at first in disgrace and obloquie for their separation from Rome and rebellion against the Emperour and other Princes and yet never the lesse beautifull because this separation was from God in regard of Idolatries of the Church of Rome greater then those of Solomon Thus the Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hassia were proscribed as rebels against the Emperour and yet their cause was beautifull and good The faithfull at that time in England were burned in King Henry the eighth's dayes as Hereticks and refractory Subjects or Rebels yet beautifull in Gods sight Comely as Jerusalem In processe of time the Church wore out the suspition and disgrace of heresie and separation and rebellion and was countenanced and adorned by Royall Lawes in the daies of King Edward the sixth and by Lawes of the Empire tolerating the Protestant Princes so that the Church seemed as Jerusalem the state of Princes the true Church of God at unity also within it selfe wherein the comelinesse consisted for as Jerusalem had been three Cities Zion Salem Millo and all three were knit together into one Jerusalem so the three differences between Lutherans Calvinists in doctrine and discipline at Geneva were all compacted together in brotherly love in their harmony of confessions Terrible as an army with banners The Church was beautifull as Tirzah in King Henry the eighths time comely as Jerusalem in King Edward the sixths time terrible as an army with banners in Queen Elisabeths time when the Protestant Princes grew formidable to the Emperour England and the low Countries to the Spaniard Pope How terrible was that overthrow which the Spaniard in 88. receiv'd Turn away thine eies c. The eies as above of the Church assembled are the ministers or the members considered apart as first knowledge secondly faith In both respects the eies of the Church were wonderfull amiable so that Christ speaketh affectionatly to the Church after the manner of Lovers ravished with the beauty of their Spouses Turne away thine eyes for they have overcome me What worthy Ministers did that first age of the Reformed Churches yeeld as Luther Calvin Martin Bucer Cranmer Hooper Ridley Latymer c. What a wonderfull measure of heavenly light did they of a sudden bring into the Church and that out of the middest of darknesse and Popery from whence it was that the knowledge and faith of the Faithfull then was wonderfully enlarged far beyond the ignorance of former times The eyes of the Faithfull in Christs time lay under their locks as hindered from cleere sight by many errors but the eyes of the Faithfull now seeing the truth much more plainly are not hindered by such locks hanging over them How cleere was their faith that having seene him which was invisible feared not the fiercenesse of their Kings and Princes but endured patiently fiery Persecutions and bloody Massacres Thy haire is like a flock of Goats Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep which goe up from washing As a piece of Pomgranat are thy temples within thy locks The estate of common Christians set out by the haire and of the Ministers set out by the teeth and of the Church Governours set forth by the piece of Pomgranat was the same in the Church reformed as in the Primitive Church where the description of these parts is used and here repeated onely with this difference The teeth are not so even cut in reformed

as sweet flowers his lips like lillies dropping sweet smelling myrrhe His cheeks are as a bed of spices Cheekes implie the outward face of the faithfull Church for the cheekes are a place most conspicuous which shewes that the faithfull of those times were as beds of spices and sweete flowers to wit not gathered into any set garden as afterward in Luthers time but scattered here and there yet of sweet and precious savour in the nostrils of Christ yea one Nicholaus de Bibrath living about that time compareth faith and pietie in the Church to spice rare and deare His lips like lillies dropping sweet smelling myrrh The doctrine of the Church at those times was such as like myrrhe served to preserve the faithfull from putrefaction according to that That which ye have already hold fast till I come In the Primitive Apostolique Church her lips dropped like an hony-combe being of strong sweet relish to delight and nourish to full growth But the lips of this Church drop rather myrrhe then hony they rather preserved some trueth of grace then yeelded any abundant nourishment to procure increase to the Church His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill his belly is as bright Ivory overlaid with Saphires His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill Hands are instuments of action their being set with gold rings implyeth their purity and dignitie The Berill cleereth moisture and dimme sight Franciscus Rudis de Goma libr. 2. cap. 8. All these shew that the Ministry of the Gospell should be then more powerfull and indeed God about that time Anno 1300. stirred up Dante 's Marcillius Potavinus Ocham Gregorius Ariminensis Petrarchus Wickliffe and many moe whose Ministry brought on so many that some have counted it the first resurrection yea the Magistrates of that time Ludovicus Bavarus the Emperour Philip of France Edward the third of England stood out in many things against the Pope as those whose hands had got more strength and better felt their owne worth and whose eies were cleered to see more light then their predecessours His belly as bright Ivory overlaid with Saphires The belly is an hidden part of the body yet such from which the rest is nourished which fitly resembleth the Sacraments here as also ch 7. 2. which being hid from those that are without yet nourish the whole body as an heap of wheat The doctrine of the Sacraments and the pure administration of the same was at this time restored by John Wickliffe and embraced by his followers though condemned in the Councell of Constance These Sacraments are said to be overlaid with Saphires whose property is to strengthen and cherish the principall solid parts because of the efficacy of the Sacraments truely taught and administred to strengthen and quicken Gods graces in us His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold his countenance is as Lebanon excellent as the Cedars His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold These two legs seem to be John Hus and Jerome of Prague who stood constantly in defence of the trueth even unto death being established in the trueth and grace of God as it were pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold His countenance is as Lebanon The faithfull grew so plentifully in Bohemia that they seemed even to the adversarie to be like a thick wood as many and firme which they were not able to hew downe and therefore they were forced in the Councell of Constance to allow them the use of the cup in the Lords Supper because they could not by strong hand keep them from it Excellent as the Cedars The Cedar is a tree eminent for talenesse and soundnesse or durablnesse such was then the face and countenance of the Church observed to grow up in conspicuous eminencie and in soundnesse of love to the trueth that the Popish teachers were not able to corrupt them any longer with their seducements His mouth is most sweet yea he is altogether lovely This is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Jerusalem His mouth is most sweet The doctrine of the Gospell was taught more and more savourly by Johannes Rochesana and other Ministers in Bohemia He is altogether lovely or desireable Christ then began againe so to dispense himselfe to his Church in giving them the faith and sense of his goodnesse that now they saw or found nothing in Christ or in the profession of his name but what was wholly desirable The rebukes of Christ began now to seeme greater riches then the treasures of Egypt or Babylon in some former ages they that saw the trueth were often brought to yeeld and recant but these saw nothing to bee more desired then Christ Besides hee is now called holy and desirable because so many so generally were stirred up to desire and seeke reformation The Regions were white and ready to the harvest else Luther had not found such good successe in his Ministry This is my beloved and this is my friend The doctrine of certainty of our adoption Iustification Salvation began now more plainly to be discerned and acknowledged Christ is not onely faire and desireable in himselfe but then the Church could more boldly say This is my beloved this is my friend THE CANTICLES OR SONG OF SONGS opened and explained THE TEXT CHAP. 6. WHither is thy beloved gone O thou fairest among women whither is thy beloved turned aside that we way seeke him with thee verse 2 My beloved is gone downe into his garden to the beds of spices to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies verse 3 I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine he feedeth among the lilies verse 4 Thou art beautifull O my love as Tirzah comely as Jerusalem terrible as an armie with banners verse 5 Turne away thine eyes from mee for they have overcome me thy haire is as a flock of goats that appeare from Gilead verse 6 Thy teeth are as a flocke of sheepe which goe up from the washing whereof every one beareth twinnes and there is not one barren among them verse 7 As a peece of pomegranate are thy temples within thy lockes verse 8 There are threescore Queenes and fourscore Concubines and Virgins without number verse 9 My dove my undefiled is but one shee is the onely one of her Mother shee is the choice one of her that bare her The daughters saw her and blessed her yea the Queenes and the Concubines and they praised her verse 10 Who is shee that looketh forth as the morning faire as the moone cleare as the sunne and terrible as an army with banners verse 11 I went downe into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley and to see whether the Vine flourished and the pomegranats budded verse 12 Or ever I was aware my soule made mee like the chariots of Aminadab verse 13 Returne returne O Shulamite returne returne that