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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.
To the making up of beauty there is required §1a sound healthy constitution,1 so as the particulars have a due proportion, there must be a harmony of the parts, one suiting with another, for comeliness stands in oneness, when many things (as it were) are one. Uncomeliness is in diversity, when divers things are jumbled together, that belong to many heads; as we say it is uncomely to have an old mans head on a young mans shoulders, but when all things are so suited that they make one agreeing exactly there is beauty and comeliness.
To the making up of beauty there is required §1a sound healthy constitution,1 so as the particulars have a due proportion, there must be a harmony of the parts, one suiting with another, for comelinesse stands in onenesse, when many things (as it were) are one. Vncomlinesse is in diversity, when divers things are jumbled together, that belong to many heads; as we say it is uncomely to have an old mans head on a young mans shoulders, but when all things are so suited that they make one agreeing exactly there is beauty and comelinesse.