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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.
Likewise there is implied a mutual complacency in these words,1 by a complacency I mean a resting, contenting love, Christ hath a complacency and resting in the Church, and the Church hath a sweet resting contentment in Christ; Christ in us and we in him. A true Christian soul that hath yielded. up its consent to Christ, when it is beaten in the world, vexed and turmoiled, it can rely on this, I have yet a loving husband, yet I have Christ.
Likewise there is implyed a mutuall complacency in these words,1 by a complacency I meane a resting, contenting love, Christ hath a complacency and resting in the Church, and the Church hath a sweet resting contentment in Christ; Christ in us and we in him. A true Christian soule that hath yeelded. up its consent to Christ, when it is beaten in the world, vexed and turmoiled, it can rely on this, I have yet a loving husband, yet I have Christ.
- 1A […] complacency or resting love.A 〈…〉 complacency or resting love.
Let this put us upon a search into our selves,1 what we retire to when we meet with afflictions, those that have brutish and beastly souls retire to carnal contentments, to good fellowship, forget, besot, and fly away from themselves ⟨p. 450⟩their own consciences and though• of their own trouble, whereas a soul that […] any acquaintance with God in Christ or any interest into Christ, so that it may say that Christ is mine and I am Christs there will be contentment and rest in such a soul, whatsoever it meets with