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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.
The ground is by reason of variety of outward occurrences working upon the diversity of principles in us nature and grace,1 both nature and ⟨p. 83⟩grace are always active in us in some degree, when corruption gets strength, then we find a sick state creeping upon us, and lose our former frame. It's with the soul as with the body, in a certain period of time it gathereth ill humours which break out into aguish distempers at length: so the relics of a spiritual disease not carried away, will ripen and gather to a head. This should teach us when we are well to study to keep an even course, and to watch over the first stirrings: and likewise if we see some unevenness in our ways, not to censure our selves or others over harshly. Exact evenness is to be striven after here, but to be enjoyed in another world.
The ground is by reason of variety of outward occurrences working upon the diversity of principles in us nature and grace,1 both nature and ⟨p. 83⟩grace are alwaies active in us in some degree, when corruption gets strength, then we find a sicke state creeping upon us, and lose our former frame. It's with the soule as with the body, in a certaine period of time it gathereth ill humours which breake out into aguish distempers at length: so the reliques of a spirituall disease not carried away, will ripen and gather to a head. This should teach us when we are well to study to keepe an even course, and to watch over the first stirrings: and likewise if we see some unevennesse in our wayes, not to censure our selves or others over harshly. Exact evennesse is to be striven after here, but to be enjoyed in another world.
- 1The Reason.