A12167:964
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.
His cheeks are as beds of spices, and as sweet flowers.
His cheekes are as beds of spices, and as sweet flowers.
Cheeks are the grace of the face, they are used here to denote the presence of Christ, which is sweet as spices and flowers; not only his presence is glorious in Heaven, when we shall see that goodly person of Christ that became man for us, that transforming sight that shall make us like himself, but the spiritual presence of Christ in his ordinances which ⟨p. 384⟩we are capable of here, this is as spices and flowers.
Cheekes are the grace of the face, they are used here to deno•e the presence of Christ, which is sweete as spices and flowers; not only his presence is glorious in Heaven, when we shall see that goodly person of Christ that became man for us, that transforming sight that shall make us like himselfe, but the spirituall presence of Christ in his ordinances which ⟨p. 384⟩wee are capable of here, this is as spices and flowers.
But you will say, 1Cheeks, face, and presence presents colours to the eye, and not smells, as spices and flowers which are the peculiar object of another sense?