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A27602 An exposition of the divinely prophetick Song of Songs which is Solomons beginning with the reign of David and Solomon, ending in the glorious kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ / adjusted to the expositor's line of time, and illustrating it, and composed into verse by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1687 (1687) Wing B2143; ESTC R10740 98,849 88

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