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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.
And in regard likewise, That all others have all from him: of his fullness we receive grace for ⟨p. 349⟩grace, ours is but a derivative fullness, his glory and shining is as the shining of the body of the Sun,1 ours as the light of the Air, which is derived from the glory of the Sun, ours is but the fullness of the stream, and of the vessel, but the fullness of the fountain and of the spring is his: thereupon he is called the head of the Church; 2the head is the tower of the body which hath all the five senses in it, and wisdom for the whole body. It seeth, heareth, understandeth, and doth all for the body; having influence into the other parts of it. So Christ is above all, and hath influence into all his Church, not only eminency, but influence.
And in regard likewise, That all others have all from him: of his fulnesse we receive grace for ⟨p. 349⟩grace, ours is but a derivative fulnesse, his glory and shining is as the shining of the body of the Sunne,1 ours as the light of the Aire, which is derived from the glory of the Sunne, ours is but the fulnesse of the streame, and of the vessell, but the fulnesse of the fountaine and of the spring is his: thereupon he is called the head of the Church; 2the head is the tower of the body which hath all the five senses in it, and wisdome for the whole body. It seeth, heareth, understandeth, and doth all for the body; having influence into the other parts of it. So Christ is above all, and hath influence into all his Church, not onely eminencie, but influence.