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A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon

by Cotton, John

A Puritan masterwork of biblical exposition, tracing the Song of Solomon verse-by-verse as a prophetic history of the Church from Solomon's day to the last judgment. Cotton reads Canticles not as romantic poetry but as a divine panorama: the Jewish and Christian church in her trials and glories, culminating in the anticipated restoration of Israel and the ingathering of the Gentiles. Rich in typology and marked by eschatological hope, this 1642 work reveals the pastoral heart of New England's foremost early minister.
Chapters
8
Word count
45,139
Type
Commentary
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Table of contents

  1. 01 The Text: Chapter 1 8,714 words
  2. 02 The Canticles, or Song of Songs Opened and Explained 5,408 words
  3. 03 The Canticles, or Song of Songs Opened and Explained 3,275 words
  4. 04 The Canticles, or Song of Songs Opened and Explained 6,425 words
  5. 05 The Canticles, or Song of Songs Opened and Explained 4,648 words
  6. 06 The Canticles, or Song of Songs Opened and Explained 6,619 words
  7. 07 The Canticles, or Song of Songs, Opened and Explained 4,886 words
  8. 08 The Canticles, or Song of Songs, Opened and Explained 5,022 words
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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: and modestly pointing at the gloriousness of the restored estate of the church of the Jews, and the happy access of the Gentiles, in the approaching days of reformation, when the wall of partition shall be taken away. A work very useful and seasonable to every Christian; but especially such as endeavor and thirst after the settling of church and state, according to the rule and pattern of the Word of God.

Written by that learned and godly divine John Cotton, Bachelor of Divinity; and now Pastor of the congregation at Boston, in New England.

London, Printed for Philip Nevil, at the sign of the Gun in Ivy Lane, 1642.

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