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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.
What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved?
Here is a Question, and a Question answered with a Question: Questions they breed knowledge (as the Greek Proverb is) doubtings breed resolution. Whereupon the inquisitive ⟨p. 342⟩soul (usually) proves the most learned, judicious and wise soul, therefore that great Philosopher counted it as a virtue amongst his scholars, that they would be inquisitive. So the scholars of Righteousness are inquisitive, they inquire the way to Canaan, 1and the way to Zion with their faces thitherwards.
Here is a Question, and a Question answered with a Question: Questions they breed knowledge (as the Greeke Proverbe is) doubtings breed resolution. Whereupon the inquisitive ⟨p. 342⟩soule (usually) prooves the most learned, judicious and wise soule, therefore that great Philosopher counted it as a vertue amongst his schollers, that they would be inquisitive. So the schollers of Righteousnesse are inquisitive, they inquire the way to Canaan, 1and the way to Zion with their faces thitherwards.