A Brief Exposition of the Whole Book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon

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.