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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 14: THE FOURTEENTH SERMON.Sermon 14: THE FOVRTEENTH SERMON.
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.
For there are degrees of spiritual languishing, till we be in heaven we are alway under some degree of this sickness of love; though the soul have more communion at one time then at another. Yea the Angels are under this wish to see Christ together with his Church in full perfection, so that until we be in Heaven where shall be a perfect reunion of soul and body, and of all the members of the Church together; there is a kind of sickness attending upon the Church and a languishing.
For there are degrees of spirittuall languishing, till we be in heaven we are alway under some degree of this sicknesse of love; though the soule have more communion at one time then at another. Yea the Angells are under this wish to see Christ together with his Church in full perfection, so that untill we be in Heaven where shall be a perfect reunion of soule and body, and of all the members of the Church together; there is a kinde of sicknesse attending upon the Church and a languishing.
The Question asked is,
What is thy Beloved more then another's Beloved, O thou fairest among women?
What is thy Beloved more then anothers Beloved, O thou fairest among woemen?