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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.
3. She seeks and calls after him.
3. Shee seekes and calls after him.
But the Doctrinal points, which are to be observed out of these verses, are these,
But the Doctrinall points, which are to be observed out of these verses, are these,
1. That Christ doth sometimes use to leave his Children, 1as he did the Church here.
- 1Obser. 1.
2. That the cause is from the Church her self,1 as we see how unkindly she had used Christ, to let him attend her leisure so long. Therefore he taking a holy state upon him, leaves the Church; The cause of his forsaking us, is in our selves, we may thank our selves for it.