A12167:1117
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.
We should not wonder to see poor souls distempered when they are in spiritual desertions,1 considering how the Spouse cannot endure the absence of Christ,2 it is out of love, therefore in the deepest plunge she hath this in her mouth, my Beloved. Therefore let us not judge […] of our selves or others, when we are impatient in this kind.
We should not wonder to see poore soules distempered when they are in spirituall desertions,1 considering how the Spouse cannot endure the absence of Christ,2 it is out of love, therefore in the deepest plunge she hath this in her mouth, my Beloved. Therefore let us not judge 〈…〉 of our selves or others, when we are impatient in this kind.
- 1Sol.
- 2That we should not wonder to see […]That we should not wonder to see 〈…〉
But for a more full answer, in […] of feeling of the love of Christ in regard of that measure we would (for there is never altogether a ⟨p. 452⟩want of feeling) there is so much as keeps from despair alway, yet if we carry a constant love towards him, mourn to him and seek after him as the Church here: if the desire of our souls be after him, that we make after him in the use of means, and are willing to speak of him, as the Church here, feel or feel not we are his, and he will at length discover himself to us.