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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.
Whence we gather, 1That Christ as he is beautiful and good,2 so he is incomparably beyond all comparison good,3 He is a standard bearer one among ten thousand, anointed with the Oil of gladness above his fellows.
Whence we gather, 1That Christ as he is beautifull and good,2 so he is incomparably beyond all comparison good,3 He is a standard bearer one among ten thousand, annoynted with the Oyle of gladnesse above his fellowes.
- 1Observ.
- 2Psal 45. 7.
- 3In regard of the personal union with the God head in our nature Christ is the chief of all. In regard all our •ulnes comes from Christ he is the chief of allIn regard of the personall union with the God head in our nature Christ is the cheefe of all. In regard all our •ulnes comes from Christ he is the chie•e of all