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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 › 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.
1. If we find freedom in our conscience from terrors and fears. 1If we find spiritual liberty2 and freedom to serve God, it is a sign that we are Daughters of Jerusalem, because Jerusalem was free.
1. If we find freedome in our conscience from terrors and feares. 1If wee find spirituall liberty2 and freedome to serve God, it is a signe that wee are Daughters of Hierusalem, because Hierusalem was free.
2. Or if we mind things above, and things of the Church, if we take to heart the cause of the truth, it is a sign we are true Daughters of Jerusalem. 1We know what the Psalmist •aith, Let my right hand forget her cunning, if I forget thee O Jerusalem, if I do not prefer Jerusalem before my chief joy. If the cause of the Church go to our hearts, if we can joy in the Churches joy, and mourn in the Churches abasement and suffering, it is a sign we are true Daughters of Jerusalem and lively members of the body of Christ. Otherwise, when we hear that the Church goes down, and that the adverse part prevails, and we joy, it is a sign we are daughters of Babylon and not of Hirusalem.