A12167:1077
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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Men are pleased with answering the bill of accusation against them thus▪ are we no• baptised? and do we not come to Church? &•. what do you make of us,1 yet they are abominable swearers and filthy in their lives. To •uch I say, the more God hath lift you up▪ and honoured you in the use of the means, the more just shall your damnation be, that you bring forth nothing but briers and brambles, the grapes of Sodom and the vine of Gomorrah: 2heavy will the doom be of many that live in the Churches bosom,3 to whom it had been better to have been borne in America, in Turkey, or in the most barbarous parts in the world: they have a heavy account to make that have been such ill proficients under abundance of means, therefore it ought to be taken to heart.
Men are pleas'd with answering the bill of accusation against them thus▪ are we no• baptised? and doe we not come to Church? &•. what doe you make of us,1 yet they are abhominable swearers and filthy in their lives. To •uch I say, the more God hath lift you up▪ and honoured you in the use of the meanes, the more just shall your damnation be, that you bring foorth nothing but briers and brambles, the grapes of Sodome and the vine of Gomorrah: 2heavy will the doome bee of many that live in the Churches bosome,3