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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.
But the second branch that must be touched a little, 1is, That there is fullness no where but in Gods house, and that there and there only is that which satisfieth the soul with fatness and sweetness.
But the second branch that must be touched a little, 1is, That there is fulnesse no where but in Gods house, and that there and there onely is that which satisfieth the soule with •atnesse and sweetnesse.
- 1Observ.
Nay not only the Promises but the very rebukes of Scripture are sweet, 1the rebukes of a friend, they feed the soul, for we have many corruptions which hinder our Communion with God, so that a Christian delights to have his corruptions rebuked; for he knows if he leave them, he shall grow into further communion with Christ, wherein stands his happiness in this world, and the fullness of his happiness in the world to come.
Nay not onely the Promises but the very rebukes of Scripture are sweet, 1the rebukes of a friend, they feed the soule, for we have many corruptions which hinder our Communion with God, so that a Christian delights to have his corruptions rebuked; for he knowes if he leave them, he shall grow into further communion with Christ, wherein stands his happinesse in this world, and the fulnesse of his happinesse in the world to come.
- 1That the rebukes of Scripture are sweet