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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.
First, the Churches acknowledgement is to be considered, Confessing, It is the voce of her Beloved. The first thing to be observed in this acknowledgement is, That the Church however sleepy and drowsy she was, yet notwithstanding her heart was so far awake, as to know the voice of her husband. The point is this,
First, the Churches acknowledgement is to be considered, Confessing, It is the voce of her Beloved. The first thing to be observed in this acknowledgement is, That the Church however sleepie and drowsie she was, yet notwithstanding her heart was so farre awake, as to know the voice of her husband. The point is this,
But much more when in a good and lively frame. Gods Believers are Christs sheep, 1Now my sheep (saith Christ) hear my voice. It is the ear mark (as it were) of a Christian, one of the characters of the new man,