A12167:1150
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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THE Church you see here, though she stood out a while against all Christs invitation and knocking, yet at length she is brought to yield herself up wholly unto Christ, and to renounce her self, which course God takes with most, yea in a manner with all his ⟨p. 464⟩[…] ⟨p. 465⟩[…] ⟨p. 466⟩people are they go out of this world to lay all high thing• low, beat down every high thought and imagination, which exalteth it self against him,1 that they may give themselves and all they have to Christ,2 if he call for it, for he that doth not so is not worthy of Christ, if we do not this at least in preparation of mind, let us not own the name of Christians, least we own that which shall further increase and aggrava•• our condemnation, professing religion one way, &yet alienating our minds to our lusts and pleasures of the world another way, to have peculiar love •its of our own distinct from Christ, how stands this, with, I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine, how stands it with the self resignation that was spoken off before.