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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
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.
THE SIXTEENTH SERMON.1
- 1SER. XVI.
CANT. V. X, XI, XII, XIII. My Beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as fine gold, his locks are bushy and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves, by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set, &c.
CANT. V. X, XI, XII, XIII. My Beloved is white and ruddie the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as fine gold, his lockes are bushie and blacke as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves, by the rivers of waters, washed with milke and fitly set, &c.
Hence likewise we may answer some doubts that may arise,1 as why the death of one man (Christ) should be of value for satisfaction for the sins of the whole world?2 how can this be? O But what kind of man was he?3 the chief ⟨p. 372⟩among ten thousand, especially considering that his excellency ariseth from the grace of his Personal Union of God and Man. The first Adam tainted thousands, and would have tainted a world of men more if there had been more, but he was mere man that did this, and shall not Christ God and Man the second Adam advance the world, and ten thousand worlds if there had been more, he is chief among ten thousand.