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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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And again,1 these words discover the mutual coherence of Justification and Sanctification, and the dependence one upon another, I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine, Christ is mine, his righteousness is mine for my ⟨p. 469⟩justification, I am clothed with Christ, as it is, Rev•. 12. The Spouse there is clothed with the Sun, with the beams of Christ: but is that all? No, I am my Beloveds, I am Christs, there is a return of Faith in Sanctification, the same Spirit that witnesseth Christ is ours, it sanctifies and alters our disposition, that we can say, I am Christs. It serves to instruct us therefore in the necessary connection of these two, Justification and Sanctification, against the idle slander of Papists, that sinfully traduce that Doctrine, as if we were Solifideans, as if we severed Justification from Sanctification. No, we hold here that whensoever Christ is ours, there is a Spirit of Sanctification in us, to yield all to Christ, though this resignation be not presently perfect.
And againe,1 these words discover the mutuall coherence of Iustification and Sanctification, and the dependance one upon another, I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine, Christ is mine, his righteousnesse is mine for my ⟨p. 469⟩iustification, I am clothed with Christ, as it is, Rev•. 12. The Spouse there is cloathed with the Sunne, with the beames of Christ: but is that all? No, I am my Beloveds, I am Christs, there is a returne of Faith in Sanctification, the same Spirit that witnesseth Christ is ours, it sanctifies and alters our disposition, that we can say, I am Christs. It serves to instruct us therefore in the necessary connexion of these two, Iustification and Sanctification, against the idle slander of Papists, that sinnefully traduce that Doctrine, as if we were Solifideans, as if we severed Iustification from Sanctification. No, we hold here that whensoever Christ is ours, there is a Spirit of Sanctification in us, to yeeld all to Christ, though this resignation bee not presently perfect.