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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.
Therefore let us take notice of this voice of Christ in the word,1 and not think as good Samuel thought,2 that Eli spake, when God spake; let us think that God speaks to us in the Ministry, that Christ comes to woe us, and win us thereby.
Therefore let us take notice of this voyce of Christ in the vvord,1 and not thinke as good Samuel thought,2 that Eli spake, when God spake; let us thinke that God speakes to us in the Ministery, that Christ comes to woe us, and win us thereby.
- 1Use.Vse.
- 21 Sam. 3. 5.
And we Ministers are the friends of the Bridegroom, who are to hear what Christ saith and would have said to the Church, and we must pray to him, that he would teach us what to teach others. We are to procure the contract, and to perfect it till the marriage be in heaven, that is our work.
And wee Ministers are the friends of the Bridegroome, who are to heare what Christ saith and would have said to the Church, and we must pray to him, that he would teach us what to teach others. We are to procure the contract, and to perfect it till the marriage be in heaven, that is our worke.