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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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Now that Christ thus leaves his Church it is true of all, both of the body and of each particular member of the Church.
It is true of the whole body of the Church,§1 for you have the Church complaining,1 Isa. 49. 14. God hath forgotten me. Can a mother forget her child? (saith God again) so Psal. 44. 9. and in other places, the Church complains of forsakings, The Scripture is full of complaints in this kind.
It is true of the whole body of the Church,§1 for you have the Church complaining,1 Isa. 49. 14. God hath forgotten me. Can a mother forget her child? (saith God againe) so Psal. 44. 9. and in other places, the Church complaines of forsakings, The Scripture is full of complaints in this kind.
- 1In the whole Body.
It is true of the sever all members and especially of the most eminent members; as we see holy Job complains,