A12167:882
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.
Not as God only but as man,1 the Mediator God and man, the Person of the Mediator is a beautiful Person; as Psal. 45. there is a notable description of Christ, and of his Church, Thou art fairer then the Children of men, grace is poured into thy lips, &c.
Not as God onely but as man,1 the Mediator God and man, the Person of the Mediator is a beautifull Person; as Psal. 45. there is a notable description of Christ, and of his Church, Thou art fairer then the Children of men, grace is powred into thy lips, &c.
- 1In what regard Christ was most beautiful.In what regard Christ was most beautifull.
But the loveliness and beauty of Christ is especially Spiritual, 1in regard of the graces of his Spirit. A deformed person, man or woman, of a homely complexion and constitution, yet notwithstanding when we discern them by their conversation to be very wise and of a lovely and sweet spirit, very able and withal wondrous willing to impart their abilities, being wondrous useful: what a world of love doth it breed, though we see in their outward man nothing lovely. The consideration of what sufficiency is in Christ, wisdom, power, goodness and love, that made him come from Heaven to Earth, to take our nature upon him, to marry us and join our nature to his (that he might join us to him in spiritual bonds) ⟨p. 347⟩