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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.
What is excellent in the Heavens?1 the Sun: So Christ is the Sun of Righteousness: the Stars, He is the bright morning Starr, the Light:2 He is the Light of the world. Come to all creatures, you have not any excellent amongst them but Christ is styled from it. He is, the Lyon of the tribe of Judah, the Lilly and the Rose, and the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, the Tree of life, &c. There is not a thing necessary to nature, but you have a stile from it given to Christ, to show, that he is as necessary as Bread and Water, 3and the food of life.4 When we see Light therefore; think of the true Light: when the Sun, think of the Sun of Righteousness: so remember the bread and water of life in our common food, therefore the Sacraments were ordained, that as we go to ⟨p. 350⟩the sea by the conduct of rivers, so we might go to the sea of all excellency and goodness by the conduct of these rivers of goodness to be led by every excellency in the creature,5 to that of our mediator Christ, who is the chiefest among ten thousand.
What is excellent in the Heavens?1 the Sunne: So Christ is the Sunne of Righteousnesse: the Starrs, He is the bright morning Starr, the Light:2 He is the Light of the world. Come to all creatures, you have not any excellent amongst them but Christ is stiled from it. He is, the Lyon of the tribe of Iuda, the Lilly and the Rose, and the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world, the Tree of life, &c. There is not a thing necessary to nature, but you have a stile from it given to Christ, to shew, that he is as necessary as Bread and Water,