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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.
But, What defence hath Gods poor Church? why no defence. But
But, What defence hath Gods poore Church? why no defence. But
First, flight, even as the Dove hath nothing but flight, it hath no talents to wound, but it hath flight, so we are to fly to God as to our mountain, fly to the Ark that God may take us in. The Church of God hath no other refuge but to be housed in God and Christ,1 he is our Ark.
First, flight, even as the Dove hath nothing but flight, it hath no tallents to wound, but it hath flight, so we are to fly to God as to our mountaine, fly to the Arke that God may take us in. The Church of God hath no other refuge but to be housed in God and Christ,1 he is our Arke.
Secondly, and to mourn as Hezekiah saith of himself. Isay. •8. He mourned as a Dove, and chattered like a Crane. The state of the Church of God is like the Turtles, to mourn in all afflictions, desertions, and molestations of wicked men, to mourn to God who hears the bemoanings of his own Spirit in them: and woe to all other birds, the birds of prey, when the Turtles do mourn (because of their cruelty) it is a presage