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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 come more particularly to speak of his excellencies,1 omitting his two Natures in one Person God and Man; that we may consider his Offices, a King, Priest and Prophet: he being the chief in all these, so all good Kings before him were types of him, as also the Prophets and Priests, he was all in one. Never any before him was King, Priest and Prophet, as he was King, Priest and Prophet in one, so in every respect he was incomparable above all. Such a §1King, as is King of Kings, and subdueth things unconquerable to all other Kings,2 even the greatest enemies of all, such a King as conquered the World, Death, Hell and Sin, all things that are terrible: Death you know is called the king of fears, because it terrifieth even Kings themselves. Christ is such a King as takes away these terrible greatest ills of all, such a King as rules over the soul and conscience, (the best part of man) where he settles and stablisheth peace, such a King as sets up his Kingdom in our very souls and hearts, guides our thoughts, desires, actions and affections, setting up a peaceable government there, so he is an incomparable King even in regard of that Office; He is the chiefest of ten thousand, ⟨p. 351⟩such a King as carries the government upon his own shoulders, as it is Isa. 9. •. He devolves not the care to another to make it as he list and so be a cypher himself, but he carries all upon his own shoulder, he needs not a Pope for his vicar.
To come more particularly to speake of his excellencies,1 omitting his two Natures in one Person God and Man; that we may consider his Offices, a King, Priest and Prophet: he being the chiefe in all these, so all good Kings before him were tipes of him, as also the Prophets and Priests, he was all in one. Never any before him was King, Priest and Prophet, as hee was King, Priest and Prophet in one, so in every respect he was incomparable above all. Such a