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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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For the first then, in that Christ makes such a real Answer unto the Churches Invitation, I am come into my Garden, &c. We see, That Christ comes into his Garden: 'Tis much that he that hath heaven to delight in, will delight to dwell among the sons of sinful men: but this he doth for us, and so takes notice of the Churches Petition.
For the first then, in that Christ makes such a reall Answer unto the Churchs Invitation, I am come into my Garden, &c. We see, That Christ comes into his Garden: 'Tis much that he that hath heaven to delight in, will delight to dwell among the sons of sinfull men: but this he doth for us, and so takes notice of the Churches Petition.
Let my Beloved come into his Garden, and eat his pleasant fruit. The right speech of the Church that gives all to Christ, who when she hath made such a petition, hears it. The Order is this.
Let my Beloved come into his Garden, and eat his pleasant fruit. The right speech of the Church that gives all to Christ, who when she hath made such a petition, heares it. The Order is this.
First of all, God makes his Church lovely, planteth good things therein,1 and then stirs up in her good desires: both fitness to pray from an inward gracious disposition: and holy desires: after which, Christ hearing the voice of his own Spirit in her, and regarding his own preparations, he answers them graciously. Whence, in the first place we may observe, That,
First of all, God makes his Church lovely, planteth good things therein,1