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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.
And this is one reason,1 which we may note by the way, why God plants in his children, at their first conversion, a sweet love, which we call, the first love, that when desertions come they may call to mind what they felt from Christ, and what they bore to him; and thereupon the Church concludes,2 Hose. 2. I will return to my first love, for then was I better then now. The Church here from what doth she commend her Beloved? but from some what that was left in her soul, some inward taste of the love of Christ in her, she called to mind how it was with her before in the former part of this, and in the latter end of the former chapter, what an excellent estate she had been in, this helped her to recover her self.
And this is one reason,1 which we may note by the way, why God plants in his children, at their first conversion, a sweete love, which we call, the first love, that when desertions come they may call to mind what they felt from Christ, and what they bore to him; and thereupon the Church concludes,2 Hose. 2. I will returne to my first love, for then was I better then now. The Church here from what doth shee commend her Beloved? but from some what that was left in her soule, some inward taste of the love of Christ in her, she called to mind how it was with her before in the former part of this, and in the latter end of the former chapter, what an excellent estate she had beene in, this helped her to recover her selfe.
- 1Reason of the first loves eagerness.Reason of the first loves •agernesse.
- 2Hos. •.