A12167:821
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.
It is i• reg••d that she i• cloath•• with […] robes, Rev. 12. there is a woman mentioned clothed with the Sun,1 we were all ennobled with the image of God at the first, but after we had sinned we were bereft of that image, therefore now all our beauty must be clothing, which is not natural to man but artificial, fetched from other things, our beauty now is borrowed, it is not connatural with us, the beauty of the Church now comes from the head of the Church Christ, she shines in the beams of her husband: not only in Justification, but in Sanctification also.
It is i• reg••d that shee i• cloath•• with 〈…〉 robes, Rev. 12. there is a woeman mentioned clothed with the Sunne,1 we were all ennobled with the image of God at the first, but after we had sinned we were bereft of that image, therefore now all our beauty must be clothing, which is not naturall to man but artificiall, fetched from other things, our beauty now is borrowed, it is not connaturall with us, the beauty of the Church now comes from the head of the Church Christ, she shines in the beames of her husband: not onely in Justification, but in Sanctification also.
- 1The Church is fair in regard she is clothe• with Christ.The Church is faire in regard she is clothe• with C•rist.