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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, &c.
A further▪ point from hence is, 1That if we would give encouragement to others to repair to us for any good, we should labour to be so excellent as to adorn Religion.
A further▪ point from hence is, 1That if wee would give incouragement to others to repaire to us for any good, we should labour to be so excellent as to adorne Religion.
- 1Observ.
O thou fairest among women, what is thy Beloved, &c. They enquire of her because they have a good conceit of her: a world of good might be done if there were bred a good conceit ⟨p. 343⟩of men in others; we say in sickness, a good conceit of the Physician is half the cure: so in teaching, a good conceit of the teacher is half the learning: The daughters of Jerusalem had a good conceit here in their Questioning of the Church: O thou fairest among women, what is thy Beloved more then another Beloved?
O thou fairest among woemen, what is thy Beloved, &c. They enquire of her because they have a good conceit of her: a world of good might be done if there were bred a good conceit ⟨p. 343⟩