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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.
1. That Christ doth sometimes use to leave his Children, 1as he did the Church here.
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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.
2. That the cause is from the Church her selfe,1 as wee see how unkindly shee had used Christ, to let him attend her leisure so long. Therefore hee taking a holy state upon him, leaves the Church; The cause of his forsaking us, is in our selves, we may thanke our selves for it.
- 1Obser. 2.
3. That though Christ deal thus with us, Yet notwithstanding,1 he never leaves us wholly, without some footsteps of his saving grace, and everlasting love, some remainders and prints he leaves upon the soul. So as it lingers after him, and never rests till it find him, he always leaves something. There is never a total desertion: as we see here in Christs dealing, he puts his finger into the hole of the dooe, he stands at the door, and leaves myrrh behind him, something in the heart that causeth a lingering, and restless affection in her towards Christ.