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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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Then she showeth her particular care and §3study,1 to be exact in this knowledge of Christ, to rip him up and anatomize him thus from Head to foot, it argueth she had studied Christ well ere she could attain this excellency: so it should be the study and care of every Christian, to study the excellencies of Christ, not only in the gross, to say as much as you have in the Creed; he was borne for us of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, dead and buried, &c. which every child can say, but to be able to particularize the high perfections and excellencies of Christ, as the Church here, to study his Nature, Offices, the State he was in, and how he carried himself in his humiliation and exaltation: what good we have by both states, Redemption by his abasement; application of it by his advancement. What he did for us on Earth, what he doth in Heaven: what in ⟨p. 376⟩Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and in the glory to come. Study every thing and warm the heart with the meditation of them.
Then shee sheweth her particular care and §3study,1 to be exact in this knowledge of Christ, to rip him up and anotomize him thus from Head to foot, it argueth shee had studied Christ well ere shee could attaine this excellencie: so it should be the study and care of every Christian, to study the excellencies of Christ, not onely in the grosse, to say as much as you have in the Creed; he was borne for us of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, dead and buried, &c. which every child can say, but to be able to particularize the high perfections and excellencies of Christ, as the Church here, to study his Nature, Offices, the State he was in, and how he carried himselfe in his humiliation and exaltation: what good we have by both states, Redemption by his abasement; application of it by his advancement. What he did for us on Earth, what he doth in Heaven: what in ⟨p. 376⟩Iustification, Adoption, Sanctification, and in the glory to come. Study every thing and warme the heart with the meditation of them.