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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
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That we may further improve this point,1 Is Christ altogether lovely,2 so lovely to us and so beloved of God the Father? Let us then rest upon his obedience and righteousness, build upon it that God cannot refuse that righteousness ⟨p. 399⟩whose subject is altogether lovely. Let us come clothed in the garments of our elder brother, and then doubt not of acceptance: for it is in Christ that he loves us, in this well-beloved Son it is that God is well-pleased with us, if we put on Christs righteousness, we put on Gods righteousness, and then how can God hate us, no more then he hates his own Son, nay he loves us,3 and that with the same love wherewith he loves him, for he loves whole Christ mystical, head and members. Let this strengthen our Faith, that if Christ be so altogether lovely in himself and to the Father, then we may comfortably come before the Father, clothed with the garments of him our elder brother, and so rest our selves on the acceptation of his Mediation that is so beloved a Mediator.
That we may further improove this point,1 Is Christ altogether lovely,2 so lovely to us and so beloved of God the Father? Let us then rest upon his obedience and righteousnes, build upon it that God cannot refuse that righteousnesse ⟨p. 399⟩whose subject is altogether lovely. Let us come clothed in the garments of our elder brother, and then doubt not of acceptance: for it is in Christ that he loves us, in this well-beloved Sonne it is that God is well-pleased with us, if we put on Christs righteousnesse, we put on Gods righteousnesse, and then how can God hate us, no more then he hates his owne Sonne, nay he loves us,3