A12167:1029
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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Which is the closing up of her commendations of Christ: This is my Beloved and this my friend, &c. Which shall only be touched ⟨p. 413⟩because we had occasion to speak thereof before. She calls Christ her beloved, howsoever he had withdrawn himself in regard of the comfort and communion she had with him before, yet he is her beloved still.
Which is the closing up of her commendations of Christ: This is my Beloved and this my friend, &c. Which shall onely be touched ⟨p. 413⟩because we had occasion to speake thereof before. She cals Christ her beloved, howsoever he had withdrawne himselfe in regard of the comfort and communion she had with him before, yet he is her beloved still.
That which is specially to be stood upon is, that the Church here doth set out not only in parcels, but in general her beloved Christ: this is my beloved, she doth as it were boast in her beloved, whence observe:
That which is specially to be stood upon is, that the Church here doth set out not onely in parcels, but in generall her beloved Christ: this is my beloved, she doth as it were boast in her beloved, whence observe: