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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.
Again,1 if Christ be so lovely (altogether lovely) then let us labour to be in him,2 that so we may be lovely to God, because he is the first amiable thing in the world, in whom we are all lovely, all our loveliness is in beloved Christ.
Againe,1 if Christ be so lovely (altogether lovely) then let us labour to be in him,2 that so we may be lovely to God, because he is the first aimiable thing in the world, in whom we are all lovely, all our lovelinesse is in beloved Christ.
- 1Use. 2.Vse. 2.
- 2To labour to be in Christ that so we may be lovely before God.To labour to be in C•rist that so wee may bee lovely before God.
Again,1 if Christ be so lovely,2 here only we have whereupon to spend the marrow of our best affections. Is it not pity we should loose so much of our affections as we do upon other things, Christ is altogether lovely, why should we dote upon other things so much, and set up Idols in our hearts above Christ, is he altogether lovely, and shall not he have altogether ⟨p. 400⟩