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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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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⟩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 tye us to Chri•t and Christ to us. 1. His Sister, by Bloud. 2. His Spouse, by Mariage.
- 1SERM. II.
Christ is our Brother, and the Church and every particular true member thereof is his Sister. I go faith Christ, 1To my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God. Go (saith he) and tell my Brethren this was after his resurrection, his advancement did not change his disposition. Go tell my brethren that left me so unkindly, go tell Peter that was most unkind of all, and most cast owne with the sense of it. He became our Brother by Incarnation: For, all our union is from the first union of two natures in one person Christ became bone of our bone, and flsh of our flesh; to make us spiritually bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh.