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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.
All must be fine gold that comes from this head, his word is gold, sometimes purged in the fire:1 his ordinances gold, in the scripture phrase, the city, the new Jerusalem which signifies the state of the Church in this world, when it shall be refined to the utmost, all is of gold, the walls of precious stones, the gates of pearl,2 and the pavement of the streets of pure gold, to show the excellency of reformation, which golden times are yet to come, in the mean time let us go on and wait for them.3
All must be fine gold that comes from this head, his word is gold, sometimes purged in the fire:1 his ordinances gold, in the scripture phrase, the city, the new Jerusalem which signifies the state of the Church in this world, when it shall be refined to the utmost, all is of gold, the walles of precious stones, the gates of pearle,2 and the pavement of the streetes of pure gold, to shew the excellency of reformation, which golden times are yet to come, in the meane time let us goe on and waite for them.3
- 1Psal. 19. 10▪
- 2Rev. 21. 21.
- 3Rev▪ 21▪