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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.
A Table of the chief heads and Contents of the following Sermons in this Book.
A Table of the chiefe heads and Contents of the following Sermons in this Booke.
THE Introduction, pag. 1. There is the same regard of the whole Church and of every particular member, in regard of the chiefest privileges and graces that accompany Salvation, pag. 5. All creatures stand in obedience to Christ, pag. 7. The courses that Christ takes with his Church may seem contrary, but by a wise ordering all agree in the wholesome issue, pag. 8. In what respects the Spirit of God is compared to wind, pa. 9. In what respects we need the blowing of the Spirit, pag. 12. In what respects the Church is compared to a Garden, pag. 13. Christians should walk as men of a fevered ⟨image 4⟩condition from the world, pag. 16. Christians planted in Gods Garden should be fruitful, pag. 17. God cares for and protecteth his Church, pag. 13. We need not only grace to put life into us at the first, but likewise grace to quicken and draw forth that life we have, pag. 19. It is not enough to be good our selves but our goodness must flow out, pag. 20, Where once God begins he goes on, and adds encouragement to encouragement, to maintain new setters up in Religion, pa. 21. Wheresoever grace is truly begun there is still a further desire of Christs presence, pag. 22. Why the Church is so earnest in desiring the presence of Christ, pag. 22. A gracious heart is privy to its own grace when it is in a right temper: and so far as it is privy, is bold with Christ in a sweet and reverend manner, p. 24. It is the duty and disposition of the Church of Christ to please her husband, p. 25. The Church gives all to Christ, pag. 26. Comfort in the wants and blemishes of our performances, pag. •7. The resolution of the whole fifth Chapter of Canticles, pag. 28. The order of Gods hearing his Church, pag. 31. God makes us good, stirs up holy desires in us, and then answers the desires of his Spirit in us, pag. 31. Why G•d hears our Prayers, pa. 32.