A12167:581
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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And likewise,1 To prepare the Church by this §6desertion, and seeming forsaking for nearer communion. ⟨p. 249⟩For indeed Christ did not forsake her, but to her feeling, to bring her in the sequel, to have nearer communion and union with himself then ever she had before, God forsakes, that he may •ot forsake; he seems strange, that he may be more friendly, this is Christs usage, he personates an adversary, when he intends to show the greatest effects of his love, as we may see afterwards in the passages following.
And likewise,1 To prepare the Church by this §6desertion, and seeming forsaking for neerer communion.