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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.
I think this is but complementall to fill up the other, it is nothing but a commendation of his freshness, a foil to beauty, therefore not particularly to be stood upon.
I thinke this is but complementall to fill up the other, it is nothing but a commendation of his freshnesse, a foile to beauty, therefore not particularly to be stood upon.
His eyes are as doves eyes by the rivers of waters, &c.
His eyes are as doves eyes, and such eyes as are by the rivers of waters, where they are cleansed and washed with milk that they may be the clearer, and fitly set, neither goggle eyes, nor sunk into the head, but fitly set, as a jewel in a ring, neither too much in, nor too much out, to set out the comeliness of this part the eye which is the glory of the face.
His eyes are as doves eyes, and such eyes as are by the rivers of waters, where they are clensed and washed with milke that they may be the clearer, and fitly set, neither gogle eyes, nor sunke into the head, but fitly set, as a jewell in a ring, neither too much in, nor too much out, to set out the comelinesse of this part the eye which is the glory of the face.