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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.
Then Vers. 2. is set forth The secure estate of the Church at this time, I sleep, but my heart waketh, in setting down whereof the Holy Ghost here by Solomon shows likewise
Then Vers. 2. is set forth The secure estate of the Church at this time, I sleepe, but my heart waketh, in setting downe whereof the Holy Ghost here by Salomon shewes likewise
The loving Intercourse betwixt Christ and the Church one with another.
Now Christ upon the secure estate and condition of the Church desires her, To open unto him, Ver. 2. Which desire and waiting of Christs is put off and slighted with poor and slender excuses, Verse 3. I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on, &c.
Now Christ upon the secure estate and condition of the Church desires her, To open unto him, Ver. 2. Which desire and waiting of Christs is put off and sleighted with poore and slender excuses, Verse 3. I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on, &c.
The success of which excuses is, that Christ seems to go away from her (and indeed to her sight and sense departs) Ver. 6. I opened to my Beloved, but my Beloved had withdrawn himself, &c. whereupon she lays about her, is restless, and inquires after Christ from the watchmen, who misuse, wound her, and take away her veil from her, Vers 7.