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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
Sermon 3 › I sleep, but my heart waketh.Sermon 3 › I sleepe, but my heart waketh.
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.
I sleep, but my heart waketh.
I sleepe, but my heart waketh.
Here the Church expresseth a changeable passage of her spiritual condition after she had recovered her self out of a former desertion; expressed in the beginning of the third Chapter and enjoyed a comfortable intercourse with Christ; now she falleth into a deeper desertion and temptation, from the remainder of corruption getting strength. The Church now falleth asleep, then was awake in the night and sought §Iher beloved, here is no present awaking, no seeking, there no misusage by the watchmen as §2here, there she findeth him more speedily, here §3she falls sick with love before Christ discovereth himself.
Here the Church expresseth a changeable passage of her spirituall condition after she had recovered her selfe out of a former desertion; expressed in the beginning of the third Chapter and enjoyed a comfortable intercourse with Christ; now she falleth into a deeper desertion and temptation, from the remainder of corruption getting strength. The Church now falleth asleepe, then was awake in the night and sought §Iher beloved, here is no present awaking, no seeking, there no misusage by the watchmen as §2here, there she findeth him more speedily, here §3she fals sick with love before Christ discovereth himself.