An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.

About this Item

Title
An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.
Author
Robotham, John, fl. 1654.
Publication
London :: Printed by Matthew Simmons, in Aldersgate-street next doore to the guilded-Lyon,
1651.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
Bible. -- O.T. -- Commentaries
Cite this Item
"An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91908.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

Pages

Ʋntill the day breake, and shadows flee away.

By the dawning of the day, is meant the breaking forth of light and glorie, when Christ shall gloriously discover himselfe to be the Sonne of righteousnesse in his brightnesse.

By the shadows, as it respects the Jewish Church, are meant all the shadows of Mosaicall ceremonies and types: but as it respects the Church in generall, it is meant of all ignorances, infirmities, and troubles what∣soever. For the words see them expounded at large

Page 470

before in Chap. 2. 17. there being only this difference, betweene this and that place, that there the Church desireth a sweet communion with Christ during the time of those shadows and darknesse she was under: and here Christ promiseth her his presence, so long as she should remaine in that condition. I shall not stand now to open, what these shadows are, having spoken of them already, in chap. 2. 17. But to proceed to the promise of Christ, which is as followeth.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.