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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
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Make also,1 a Use of Direction, How to come to value Christ thus:2 as to keep an high esteem of him, for this follows infallibly and undeniably: If Christ be, the chief of ten thousand, he must have the chief of our affections, above ten thousand: for, as he is in excellency, he must have place in our hearts answerable thereunto; for, then our souls are as they should be, when they judge of, and affect things as they are in themselves.
Make also,1 a Vse of Direction, How to come to valew Christ thus:2 as to keepe an high esteeme of him, for this followes infallibly and undeniably: If Christ be, the cheefe of ten thousand, he must have the cheefe of our affections, above ten thousand: for, as he is in excellency, hee must have place in our hearts answerable thereunto; for, then our soules are as they should be, when they judge of, and affect things as they are in themselves.
- 1Use. 3.Vse. 3.
- 2For direction.