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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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Again,1 labour to be earnest: if we would kindle, others, we must be warmed our selves, if we would make others weep, we must weep our selves, naturalists could observe this, the Church spake this with large expressions, indeed more then can be expressed: let us labour to be deeply affected with what we speak, and speak with confidence, as if we knew what we spoke, as the Apostle John doth, in the beginning of his Epistle to bring others to be better persuaded of his doctrine, he affirmeth that which was from the beginning, which we have heard,2 which we have seen with these our eyes, which we have looked upon, and these hands of ours have handled of the Word of life he delivered to them.
Againe,1 labour to be earnest: if we would kindle, others, we must be warmed our selves, if we would make others weepe, we must weepe our selves, naturalists could observe this, the Church spake this with large expressions, indeed more then can be exprest: let us labour to be deepely affected with what we speake, and speake with confidence, as if we knew what we spoke, as the Apostle Iohn doth, in the beginning of his Epistle to bring others to be better perswaded of his doctrine, he affirmeth that which was from the beginning, which we have heard,2 which we have seene with these our eyes, which we have looked upon, and these hands of ours have handled of the Word of life he delivered to them.
- 1To be earnest in those things we would enforce upon others.To be earnest in those things we would inforce upon others.
- 21. Joh. 1. 1.1. Ioh. 1. 1.