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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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Oh yes, to pity, help, and heal it,1 but not at all to diminish his love, but to manifest ⟨p. 176⟩it so much the more. His love is a tender love, sensible of all things wherewith we displease him, yet it is so invincible and unconquerable, that it overcomes all. Again he sees ill indeed in us, but he sees in us some good of his own also, which moves him more to love, then that that is ill in us, moves him to hate, for what he sees of ours, he sees with a purpose to vanquish, mortify, and ea•e it out; the Spirit is as fire to consume it, He is as water to wash it, but what he sees of his own, he sees with a purpose to increase it more and more, and to perfect it, therefore he says my Love, notwithstanding that the Church was a sleep.
Oh yes, to pitty, helpe, and heale it,1 but not at all to diminish his love, but to manifest ⟨p. 176⟩it so much the more. His love is a tender love, sensible of all things wherewith we displease him, yet it is so invincible and unconquerable, that it overcomes all. Againe he sees ill indeed in us, but he sees in us some good of his owne also, which moves him more to love, then that that is ill in us, moves him to hate, for what he sees of ours, he sees with a purpose to vanquish, mortifie, and ea•e it out; the Spirit is as fire to consume it, He is as water to wash it, but what he sees of his owne, he sees with a purpose to encrease it more and more, and to perfect it, therefore he says my Love, notwithstanding that the Church was a sleepe.
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