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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.
Taste is the most necessary sense for the preservation of the creature, because there is nearest application in taste, and that we should not be ⟨p. 74⟩deceived in taste, we hear, see and smell before, and if these senses give a good report of the object,1 then we taste of it and digest it and turn it into fit nourishment: so the spirit of man after judgement of the fitness of what is presented, tastes of it, delights in it, and is nourished by it. Ther• is an attractive drawing power in the soul whereby every member sucks that out of the food that is convenient for it: so the soul draws out what is well digested by judgement, and makes it its own for several uses.
Tast is the most necessary sence for the preservation of the creature, because there is nearest application in taste, and that we should not be ⟨p. 74⟩deceived in taste, we heare, see and smell before, and if these sences give a good report of the object,1 then we taste of it and digest it and turne it into fit nourishment: so the spirit of man after judgement of the fitnesse of what is presented, tasts of it, delights in it, and is nourished by it. Ther• is an attractive drawing power in the soule whereby every member sucks that out of the food that is convenient for it: so the soule drawes out what is well digested by judgement, and makes it its owne for severall uses.
- 1Omnis vite gustu ducitur.