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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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Now what patience is there in Christ to suffer himself in his messengers, and his children to be thus used? Nor it is not strange to say that Christ stands thus in his Ministers, for 1 Pet. 3. 19. It is said, That Christ by his Spirit preached in the days of Noah to the souls now in prison, Christ preached in Noah's time before he was Incarnate, much more doth he preach now: and as he was patient then to endure the old World, unto whom Noah preached a hundred and twenty years, so he is patient now in his Ministers to preach still by the same Spirit, ⟨p. 169⟩Even to us still, and yet the entertainment in many places is (as Paul complains,) though the more I love you, 1yet she less I am beloved of you.
Now what patience is there in Christ to suffer himselfe in his messengers, and his children to be thus used? Nor it is not strange to say that Christ stands thus in his Ministers, for 1 Pet. 3. 19. It is said, That Christ by his Spirit preached in the daies of Noah to the soules now in prison, Christ preached in Noahs time before he was Incarnate, much more doth he preach now: and as he was patient then to endure the old World, unto whom Noah preached a hundred and twenty yeares, so he is patient now in his Ministers to preach still by the same Spirit, ⟨p. 169⟩Even to us still, and yet the enteatainement in many places is (as Paul complaines,) though the more I love you, 1yet she lesse I am beloved of you.
- 12 Cor. 12. 1•.