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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE SECOND SERMON.
CANT. V. I. I am come into my Garden, my Sister, my Spouse: I have gathered my Myrrh with my Spice, I have gathered my honey-comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved!
CANT. V. I. I am come into my Garden, my Sister, my Spouse: I have gathered my Myrre with my Spice, I have gathered my hony-combe with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milke: eate O friends, drinke, yea drinke abundantly, O Beloved!
THIS Song is a mirror of Christs love, a discovery of which we have in part in this verse. Wherein Christ accepts of the invitation of the Church, and comes into his Garden: and he entertains her with the terms ⟨p. 44⟩of Sister and Spouse. 1Herein observe the description of the Church, and the sweet Compellation, [My Sister, my Spouse.] Where there is both Affinity and Consanguinity, all the bonds that may tie us to Christ and Christ to us. 1. His Sister, by Blood. 2. His Spouse, by Marriage.
THIS Song is a mirror of Christs love, a discovery of which wee have in part in this verse. Wherein Christ accepts of the invitation of the Church, and comes into his Garden: and he entertaines her with the termes ⟨p. 44⟩