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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.
This phrase imports diverse things,1 That there is not saving love to any out of the Church, §1which is his love. It is (as it were) confined in the Church, as if all the beams of his love met in that centre, as we see when the beams of the Sun meet in a glass, they burn, because many are there united. So in the Church all his love doth meet.
This phrase imports diverse things,1 That there is not saving love to any out of the Church, §1which is his love. It is (as it were) confined in the Chruch, as if all the beames of his love met in that center, as we see when the beames of the Sunne meete in a glasse, they burne, because many are there united. So in the Church all his love doth meete.
- 1Deductions out of the word Love.
Then the Church is his love also, Because whatsoever she hath or hopes for, is from his love, and is nothing but his love. The Church as it is a Church is nothing but the love of Christ. ⟨p. 175⟩that there is a Church so endowed, so graced, so full of the hope of glory, it is out of his love.
Then the Church is his love also, Because whatsoever shee hath or hopes for, is from his love, and is nothing but his love. The Church as it is a Chruch is nothing but the love of Christ. ⟨p. 175⟩that there is a Church so endowed, so graced, so full of the hope of glorie, it is out of his love.