A12167:1135
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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How are we Christs Beloved,1 we are his first of all by his Fathers gift, for God in his eternal purpose gave him for us, and gives us to him, as it is in the excellent prayer, John 17.§1 Father thine they were and thou gavest them me.2 I had not them of my self first, but thine they were before all worlds were, thou gavest them me to redeem them, and my Commission doth not extend beyond thy gift; I die for all those that thou gavest me, I sanctify my self for them that they may be sanctified, so we are Christs in his Fathers gift, but that is not all, though it be the chief fundamental principal ground of all.
How are we Christs Beloved,1 we are his first of all by his Fathers gift, for God in his eternall purpose gave him for us, and gives us to him, as it is in the excellent prayer, Iohn 17.§1 Father thine they were and thou gavest them me.2 I had not them of my selfe first, but thine they were before all worlds were, thou gavest them me to redeeme them, and my Commission doth not extend beyond thy gift; I die for all those that thou gavest me, I sanctisie my selfe for them that they may be sanctified, so we are Christs in his Fathers gift, but that is not all, though it be the chiefe fundamentall principall ground of all.
- 1How we come to be and are in Christ beloved.
- 2By his Fathers gift.