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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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There is in Christ whatsoever may commend a Husband, birth, comeliness, riches, friends, wisdom, authority, &c.
There is in Christ whatsoever may commend a Husband, birth, comelinesse, riches, friends, wisdome, authority, &c.
The Excellency of this condition to be one with ⟨p. 54⟩§1Christ, is that all things are ours. For he is the King, and the Church the Queen of all, all things are serviceable to us, it is a wondrous nearness to be nearer to Christ, hen the Angels, who are not his body, but servants that attend upon the Church: the Bride is nearer to him,1 then the Angels, for, he is the Head, and Husband thereof, and not of the Angels. What an excellent condition is this for poor flesh and blood, (that creeps up and down the earth here despised.)
The Excellencie of this condition to be one with ⟨p. 54⟩§1Christ, is that all things are ours. For he is the King, and the Church the Queene of all, all things are serviceable to us, it is a wond•ro•s nearenesse to be nearer to Christ, hen the Angels, who are not his body, but servants that atend upon the Church: the Bride is nearer to him,1 then the Angels, for, he is the Head, and Husband thereof, and not of the Angels. What an excellent condition is this for poore flesh and bloud, (that creeps up and downe the earth here despised.)