A12167:1079
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.
That is having first planted them Lilies here,1 to gather them, and to transport them out of the garden here, to the garden in Heaven, where there sh•ll be nothing but Lilies. For the Church of God hath two Gardens or Paradises since the first Paradise (whereof that was a resemblance) th• Paradise of the Church, and the Paradise of H•aven.2 As Christ saith to the good thief, this day thou sh•le be with me in Paradise. So those that are good plants in the Paradise of the Church, they shall be glorious plants also in the Paradise of Heaven, we must not alway be here, we shall change our soil and be taken into Heaven: He is gone into h•s garden to gather Lilies.
That is having first planted them Lillies here,1 to gather them, and to transport them out of the garden here, to the garden in Heaven, where there sh•ll be nothing but Lillies. For the Church of God hath two Gardens or Paradises since the first Paradise (whereof that was a resemblance) th• Paradise of the Chruch, and the Paradise of H•aven.2 As Christ saith to the good theefe, this day thou sh•le be with me in Paradise. So those that are good plants in the Paradise of the Church, they shall be glorious plants also in the Paradise of Heaven, we must not alway be here, we shall change our soyle and be taken into Heaven: He is gone into h•s garden to gather Lillies.
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