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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.
Those that look upon the Church with the spectacles of malice can see no such beauty in her,1 though to espy out faults, as the Devil could in Job, 2to quarrel, to slander, they are quicksighted enough, but we see here the Church in the judgement of the daughters of Jerusalem, that she is the fairest among women.
Those that looke upon the Church with the spectacles of malice can see no such beauty in her,1 though to espy out faults, as the Divell could in Iob, 2to quarrell, to slander, they are quicksighted enough, but we see here the Church in the judgement of the daughters of Ierusalem, that she is the fairest among woemen.
The Papists have a painted beauty, for their Catholic Church, but here is no such beauty ⟨p. 341⟩It becomes a whore to be painted, to be as fair as her hands can make her, with feigned beauty. But the Church of Christ hath a beauty from her husband, a real spiritual beauty not discerned of the world.