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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.
My Beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
My Beloved is white and ruddie, the chiefest among ten thousand.
We will take that which is safe; because we will have sure footing (as near as we can) in this mystical portion of Scripture,1 what is that white and ruddy, why doth the Church set forth the Spiritual excellencies of Christ by that which is most outwardly excellent and most beautiful.
We will take that which is safe; because we will have sure footing (as neere as we can) in this misticall portion of Scripture,1 what is that white and ruddie, why doth the Church set forth the Spirituall excellencies of Christ by that which is most outwardly excellent and most beautifull.
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Because of all complexions the mixed complexion of these two colours white and ruddy is the purest and the best,1 therefore she sets out the beauty and the Spiritual excellency of Christ by this white and ruddy, beauty ariseth of the mixture of these two. First she sets out the beauty of Christ positively, and then by way of comparison, The chiefest among ten thousand.
Because of all complections the mixed complection of these two colours white and ruddie is the purest and the best,