Bowels 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 (1641)
Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635 · London : Printed by G.M. for George Edwards · leaf 328
h enquiry after him. Thus; the weaker Chriftians being ftirred up by the ex-\ ampleof the ftronger, they make this Qjeftion,I and are thus ioquifirive -7 but to fpeake ot tftcm in; their order. O thou fair eft among women ,here is the compel-lation, the Church is thefaireft among… … The Church u fly -with Chrift, But how commeth Jhe te be thus faire ? It is in regard that Jhe is cloathed with Chrijlsrobes,Rev.1 2.there is a womaa mentioned, cloa-thed with the Sunne:We were all innobled withthe image of God at the firft ; but after we had 1 faire w regard w * I ft • t 1 t…
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