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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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Therefore let us labour to be like to him, who for that purpose became like to us Immanuel God with us,1 that we might be like him, and and partake of the divine Nature. Whom should we rather desire to be like then one so great so gracious so loving?
Therefore let us labour to be like to him, who for that purpose became like to us Immanuell God with us,1 that we might be like him, and and partake of the divine Nature. Whom should we rather desire to be like then one so great so gracious so loving?
Again, Christ was not ashamed to call us Brethren, nor abhorred the Virgins womb, to be shut up in those dark cells and straits: but took our base nature, when it was at the worst, and not only our nature, but our miserable condition and ⟨p. 45⟩cur•e […] unto us. Was not he ashamed of us, and shall we be ashamed to own him and his cause? Against this Cowardice it is a thunderbolt, which our Saviour Christ pronounceth.1 He that is ashamed of me before men, him will I be ashamed of before my Father, and all the holy Angels. It argues a base disposition, either for frown or favour to desert a good cause in evil times.
Againe, Christ was not ashamed to call us Brethren, nor abhorred the Virgins wombe, to be shut up in those dark cells and streites: but tooke our base nature, when it was at the worst, and not only our nature, but our miserable condition and