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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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And the last reason why the Church is thus large was,1 To draw and wind up the affections of those well meaning Christians that were comers on, who were inquisitive of the way to Zion. O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that you may know that there is some cause to seek after Christ more then you have done before, I tell you what an excellent person my beloved is, to whet their affections more and more, and we see the success of this excellent discourse in the beginning of the next Chapter, whether is thy beloved gone, &c.
And the last reason why the Church is thus large was,1 To draw and wind up the affections of those well meaning Christians that were commers on, who were inequisitive of the way to Syon. O ye daughters of Hierusalem, that you may know that there is some cause to seeke after Christ more then you have done before, I tell you what an excellent person my beloved is, to whet their affections more and more, and we see the successe of this excellent discourse in the beginning of the next Chapter, whether is thy beloved gone, &c.
- 1To wind up the affections of her new beginning Christians.
These and the like reasons there are of the large expressions of the Church of the excellencies of Christ, this is my beloved, and this is my friend, Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem. But we will single out of these reasons for use that which I think fittest for us to make Use of.
These and the like reasons there are of the large expressions of the Church of the excelencies of Christ, this is my beloved, and this is my friend, Oh ye daughters of Hierusalem. But we will single out of these reasons for use that which I thinke fittest for us to make Use of.