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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.
What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved?1 and they double it, what is thy Beloved more then another Beloved that thou so chargest us?
- 1Quest.
Questions are of divers natures, we shall not stand upon them, this is not a Question merely of ignorance (for they had some knowledge of Christ, though weak) Nor was it a curious nor a catching Question, like those of the Scribes and Pharisees unto Christ, to instance in that of Pilate,1 What is truth? when Christ had told him the truth, What is truth, (saith he) in a scornful profane manner, as indeed profane spirits cannot hear savoury words, but they turn them off with scorn, what is truth•. This here in the text is not such, but a Question tending to further resolution and satisfaction, What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved?
Questions are of divers natures, we shall not stand upon them, this is not a Question meerely of ignorance (for they had some knowledge of Christ, though weake) Nor was it a curious nor a catching Question, like those of the Scribes and Pharisees unto Christ, to instance in that of Pilate,1 What is truth? when Christ had told him the truth, What is truth, (saith he) in a scornfull prophane manner, as indeed prophane spirits cannot heare savoury words, but they turne them off with scorne, what is truth•. This here in the text is not such, but a Question tending to further resolution and satisfaction, What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved?