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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
Sermon 11 › What is it to take away the veil.Sermon 11 › What is it to take away the vaile.
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.
The Church is Christs Spouse, the veil was a token of subjection, now they that d•aw the people to themselves, as in Popish Churches, that desire to sit high in the consciences of people, and so make the Church undutiful, They take away the veil of subjection, and so force Christ to punish the Church, as we see in former ages.
The Church is Christs Spous•, the vaile was a token of subjection, now they that d•aw the people to themselves, as in Popish Churches, that desire to sit high in the consciences of people, and so make the Church undutifull, They take away the vaile of subjection, and so force Christ to punish the Church, as wee see in former ages.
2. As the veil is for honour and comeliness, 1so they take away the veil of the Church, when they take away the credit and esteem• of the Church, when they lay open the infirmities and weaknesses of the Church. This is strange that the Watchmen should do this, yet notwithstanding oftentimes it falls out so that those that by place are Watchmen, are the bitterest enemies of the Church Who were bitterer enemies of the poor Church in Christs time then the Scr•bes, Pharisees, and Priests.
2. As the vaile is for honour and comelinesse, 1so they take away the vaile of the Church, when they take away the credit and esteem• of the Church, when they lay open the infirmities and weaknesses of the Church. This is strange that the Watchmen should do this, yet notwithstanding oftentimes it falls out so that those that by place are Watchmen, are the bitterest enemies of the Church Who were bitterer enemies of the poore Church in Christs time then the Scrbes, Pharises, and Priests.