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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 12: THE TWELFTH SERMON.Sermon 12: THE TVVELFTH SERMON.
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 TWELFTH SERMON.
THE TVVELFTH SERMON.
THE Watchmen. (Those that by their place and standing should be, soe) they smote the Church (as Barnard complains, almost 500. years ago) alas, alas saith he, those that do see• privileges in the Church, are the first in persecuting it and (as his fashion is to speak in a kind of Rhetoric) they were not pastors, but impostors. There be two ordinances without ⟨p. 301⟩which the world cannot stand.
THE Watchmen. (Those that by their place and standing should bee, soe) they smote the Church (as Barnard complaines, almost 500. yeares agoe) alas, alas saith he, those that doe see• priviledges in the Church, are the first in persecuting it and (as his fashion is to speake in a kinde of Rhetorick) they were not pastors, but impostrs. There be two ordinances without