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The Cup allowed the people. Ch.5. His legs are as pillars of marble, fet upon fockets of fine gold. ] Thefe two legs feem to be John Hus and Jerome of Prague,who ftood conftantly in defence of the trueth, even unto death, being established in the trueth and grace of God, as it were pillars of marble, fet upon fockets of fine gold. His countenance is as Lebanon. ]

The faithfull grew fo plentifully in Bohemia, that they seemed even to the adverfarie 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 Conftance, to allow them the use of the cup in the Lords Supper, because they could not by ftrong hand keep them from it.

Excellent as the Cedars. ] The Cedar is a tree eminent for taleneffe, and foundneffe or durabineffe: fuch was then the face and countenance of the Church, ob served to grow up in confpicuous eminencie, and in foundneffe of love to the trueth, that the Popish teachers were not able to corrupt them any longer with their feducements.

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His mouth is most sweet, yea, altogether lovely. This is my beloved,

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Ch.5. How Chrift altogether lovely.

and this is my friend, o daughters of Jerufalem.

His mouth is most fweet. ]

The doctrine of the Gofpell was taught more and more favourly by Johannes Rochefana, and other Minifters in Bohemia.

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He is altogether lovely, or defireable. ] Christ then began againe fo to difpenfe himfelfe to his Church, in giving them the faith and sense of his goodneffe, that now they saw or found nothing in Christ, or in the profeffion of his name, but what was wholly defirable. The re- Heb.11. bukes of Chrift began now to feeme 26. greater riches, then the treafures of Egypt or Babylon in fome former ages:they that faw the trueth were often brought to yeeld and recant; but these faw nothing to bee more defired then Chrift. Befides, hee is now called holy and defirable,because fo many fo generally were stirred up to defire and feeke reformation. The Regions were white and ready to the harvest, else Luther had not found fuch good fucceffe in his Ministry.

This is my beloved, and this is my friend.] The doctrine of certainty of our adoption,

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Chrift the Churches beloved. Ch.5

tion, Iuftification, Salvation, began now more plainly to be difcerned and acknowledged: Chrift is not onely faire and defireable in himfelfe; but then the Church could more boldly fay, This is my beloved, this is my friend.

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CANTICLES,

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SONG OF SONGS
opened and explained.

THE TEXT.

СНАР. 6.

W Hither is thy beloved gore, O thon fair

eft among women? whither is thy beloved

turned afide? that we way feeke him with thee.
2 My beloved is gone downe into his garden,
to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to
gather lilies.
beloved is mine:

3 I am my beloveds, and my he feedeth among the lilies.

4 Thou art beautifull, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerufalem, terrible as an armie with

banners.

5 Turne away thine eyes from mee, for they have overcome me : thy haire is as a flock of goats that appeare from Gilead.

6 Thy teeth are as a flocke of sheepe which goe

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The Song of Songs.

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up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twinnes, and there is not one. barren among them. 7 As a peece of pomegranate are thy temples within thy lockes.

8 There are threefcore Queenes, and four score Concubines, and Virgins without number.

9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; Shee is the onely one of her Mother, fhee is the choice one of her that bare her: The daughters faw her, and bleffed her; yea, the Queenes, and the Concubines, and they praised her.

10 Who is Shee that looketh forth as the morning, faire as the moone, cleare as the funne, and terrible as an army with banners?

11 I went downe into the garden of nuts to fee the fruits of the valley, and to fee whether the Vine flourished, and the pomegranats budded.

12 Orever I was aware, my foule made mee like the chariots of Aminadab.

13 Returne, returne, O Shulamite; returne, returne, that we may looke upon thee: what will you fee in the Shulamite? as it were the company of two armies.

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