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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.
Open unto me my Love,
He calls her my Love, 1especially for two §1respects; partly because his love was settled upon her, it was in his own breast, but it rested not there, but seated it self upon, and in the heart of his spouse, so that she became Christs love. We know the heart of a lover is more ⟨p. 184⟩where it loves, then where it lives, (as we use to speak) and indeed, there is a kind of a going out (as it were) to the thing beloved with a heedlessness of all other things, where the affection is in any excess, it carries the whole soul with it.
Hee calles her my Love, 1especially for two §1respects; partly because his love was setled upon her, it was in his owne breast, but it rested not there, but seated it selfe upon, and in the heart of his spouse, so that shee became Christs love. Wee know the heart of a lover is more ⟨p. 184⟩where it loves, then where it lives, (as we use to speake) and indeed, there is a kind of a going out (as it were) to the thing beloved with a heedlesnesse of all other things, where the affection is in any excesse, it carries the whole soule with it.
- 1Why my Love.