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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.
God hath two gardens, the Church Catholic is his garden, and every particular Church are gardens and beds of spices, in regard that many Christian• are sown there that Christs soul delights in, as in sweet spices. This was spoken off before at large in Chapter 5. 1. why the Church is called a garden being a severed place from the wa•te: the Church is severed ⟨p. 431⟩from the wilderness of the world in Gods care and love, likewise he tends and weeds his Church and garden: as for the waste of the world, he is content the wilderness should have barren plants: but he will not endure such in his garden; therefore those that give themselves liberty to be naught in the Church of God, he will have a time to roo•e them out: Trees that are not for fruit, shall be for the fire, and above all other Trees their doom shall be the heaviest that grow in Gods garden without fruit:1 that fig-tree shall be cursed.
God hath two gardens, the Church Catholike is his garden, and every particular Church are gardens and beds of spices, in regard that many Christian• are sowne there that Chri•ts soule delights in, as in sweet spices. This was spoken off before at large in Chapter 5. 1. why the Church is called a garden being a severed place from the wa•te: the Chruch is severed ⟨p. 431⟩from the wildernesse of the world in Gods care and love, likewise he tends and weeds his Church and garden: as for the waste of the world, he is content the wildernesse should have barren plants: but he will not endure such in his garden; therefore those that give themselves liberty to be naught in the Church of God, he will have a time to roo•e them out: Trees that are not for fruit, shall be for the fire, and above all other Trees their doome shall be the heaviest that grow in Gods garden without fruit: