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Bowels Opened
Bowels opened, or, A discovery of the near and deer love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every believing soul Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixth chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithful minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his own pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he entrusted with the publishing of his works.Bovvels opened, or, A discovery of the neere and deere love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every beleeving soule Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixt chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable societie of Grayes Inne, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his owne pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1639
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He is altogether lovely.
Lovely to God,1 to us, to the soul; lovely to him that can best judge of loveliness, the judgement of God I hope will go currant with us, and what doth God the Father judge of Christ, This is my beloved Son, he is the Son of Gods love, Colos. 1. 13. (as God cannot but love his own image) He is lovely also as man, for he was pure and holy, lovely as Mediator by office, for he was anointed by God to convey the Fathers love to us, He must needs be lovely in whom all others are loved, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, out of him I am well pleased with no body. And indeed he was filled with all graces that might make him lovely, all the treasures of wisdom are in him, and of his fullness we all receive grace for grace, he is made a store-house ⟨p. 397⟩of all that is good for us.
Lovely to God,1 to us, to the soule; lovely to him that can best judge of lovelinesse, the judgement of God I hope will goe currant with us, and what doth God the Father judge of Christ, This is my beloved Sonne, he is the Son of Gods love, Colos. 1. 13. (as God cannot but love his own image) He is lovely also as man, for he was pure and holy, lovely as Mediator by office, for he was anoynted by God to conveigh the Fathers love to us, He must needs be lovely in whom all others are loved, this is my beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased, out of him I am well pleased with no body. And indeed he was filled with all graces that might make him lovely, all the treasures of wisdome are in him, and of his fulnesse we all receive grace for grace, he is made a store-house ⟨p. 397⟩