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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
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.
2. The Question doubled, what •s thy Beloved more than another Beloved. And again, What is thy Beloved, &c. that thou dost so charge us, as if they should say, Thou layest a serious charge upon •s, therefore there is some great matter surely in thy Beloved that th•u makest such inquiry after him. ⟨p. 322⟩Thus the weaker Christians being stirred up by the example of the stronger, they make this Question and are thus inquisitive, but to speak of them in their order.
2. The Question doubled, what •s thy Beloved morethen another Beloved. And againe, What is thy Beloved, &c. that thou dost so charge us, as if they should say, Thou layest a serious charge upon •s, therefore there is some great matter surely in thy Beloved that th•u makest such inquiry after him. ⟨p. 322⟩Thus the weaker Christians being stirred up by the example of the stronger, they make this Question and are thus inquisitive, but to speake of them in their order.
O thou fairest among women, here is the Compellation, the Church is the fairest among women in the judgement of Christ, so he calls her, Cant. 1. 8. O […] fairest among women, and here the fellow members of the Church tearm• her so too, fair and the fa•rest, incomparably fair•.
O thou fairest among woemen, here is the Compellation, the Church is the fairest among woemen in the judgement of Christ, so he calls her,