A12167:733
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 › They took away my veil.Sermon 12 › They tooke away my 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.
They took away my veil.
They tooke away my vaile.
What shall we do in such cases,1 if we suffer any indignity, if the veil be taken off. That is if our shame, infirmities, and weaknesses, be laid open by false imputations.
What shall wee doe in such cases,1 if wee suffer any indignity, if the vaile bee taken off. That is if our shame, infirmities, and weakenesses, be laid open by false imputations.
- 1Quest.
In this case,1 it is the innocency of the D•ve, ⟨p. 302⟩that is to be laboured for, and withal the wisdom of the Serpent. If Innocency will not serve, labour for wisdom, as indeed it will not alone; the wicked would then labour for subtlety to disgrace righteous persons.