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were all Fiflier-men. 



Andiince I have your promife to 

 hear me with patience, I will take a 

 liberty to look back upon an obfer- 

 vation thathath been made by an in- 

 genuous and learned man, whoob- 

 ferves that God hath been pleafed to 

 allow thofe whom he himfelfe hath 

 appointed, to write his holy will in 

 holy Writ, yet to exprefs his will in 

 fuch Metaphors as their former affe- 

 ctions or praitife had inclined them 

 to ; and he brings Solomon for an ex- 

 ample, who before his converlion 

 was remarkably amorous, and after 

 by Gods appointment, writ that T h , e Can * 



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Love-bong betwixt God and his 

 Church. 



And if this hold in reafon (as I 

 fee none to the contrary) then it may 

 be probably concluded, that Mofev 

 ^whom I told you before, writ the 

 book vfjobj ard the Prophet Amos 

 \verebothAngle.-s.foryou (hal in all 

 the old Teftament^ find fifh-hooks 



but 



