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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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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 and then stirs up in her good desires: both fitnesse 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 owne preparations, he answers them graciously. Whence, in the first place we may observe, That,
- 1The Order of God•is hearing his Church.