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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.
In a feast because it is intended for rejoicing there is music, and what music like to the §5sweet harmony between God reconciled in Christ and the soul, and between the soul and it self in inward peace and joy of the Holy Ghost, shedding the love of Christ in the soul. We do not only joy but glory under hope of glory,1 and in afflictions, and in God now as ours, in whom now by Christ we have an interest. When we come sorrowful to this feast, we depart cheerful. This as Davids harp stills all passions and distempers of spirit.
In a feast because it is intended for rejoycing there is musicke, and what musicke like to the §5sweete harmony betweene God reconciled in Christ and the soule, and betweene the soule and it selfe in inward peace and joy of the Holy Ghost, shedding the love of Christ in the soule. We doe not onely joy but glory under hope of glory,1 and in afflictions, and in God now as ours, in whom now by Christ we have an interest. When we come sorrowfull to this feast, we depart chearfull. This as Davids harpe stills all passions and distempers of spirit.
- 1Rom. 6. 5. 2. 3. 10.
The founder and master of the feast is Christ himself, and withal is both guest and and banquet and all. All graces and comforts are the fruits of his Spirit, and he alone that infused the soul, can satisfy the soul, he that is above the conscience can only quiet the conscience, he is that wisdom that sends forth maids, 1