A12167:980
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.
This is one excellency of Christ and of his truth, that it preserves the soul in a pure estate, it is pure it self and so it preserves the soul, myrrh is a liquor that keeps from putrefaction, there is nothing that keeps the soul but the word that endures for ever, whereas on the other side error is of a putrefying nature, corrupting and defiling the soul.
This is one excellency of Christ and of his truth, that it preserves the soule in a pure estate, it is pure it selfe and so it preserves the soule, mirrh is a liqour that keepes from putrifaction, there is nothing that keepes the soule but the word that indures for ever, whereas on the other side error is of a putrifying nature, corrupting and defiling the soule.
His hands are as gold rings set with Beryl, &c.
His hands are as gold rings set with Berill, &c.
Hands are the instruments of actions, Christs actions are precious, whatsoever he doth to the Church, nay even when he doth use evil men to afflict and exercise the Church, he hath a hand there, a golden, a precious hand, in the evil hand of wicked men God doth all things by Christ,1 he is as it were Gods hand which all things pass through.2 Joseph was the second man of Egypt through whose hands all things came to the rest,3 so all things comes through Christs hands to us, and whatsoever is his ⟨p. 390⟩