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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.
2. We shame Satan, who first takes away shame of sinning, and then takes away shame for sin, he tempts us not to be ashamed to do that we are ashamed to confess; so we by silence keep Satan's counsel against our own souls. If we accuse our selves, we put him out of office, ⟨p. 85⟩who is the accuser of the brethren.
2. We shame Satan, who first takes away shame of sinning, and then takes away shame for sinne, he tempts us not to be ashamed to do that we are ashamed to confesse; so we by silence keepe Satans counsell against our owne soules. If we accuse our selves, we put him out of office, ⟨p. 85⟩who is the accuser of the brethren.
3. We prevent likewise malicious imputations from the world, Austin answered roundly and well when he was upbraided with the sins of his former age:1 what, thou (saith he) findest fault with, I have condemned in my self before.
3. We prevent likewise malicious imputations from the world, Austin answered roundly and well when he was upbraided with the sinnes of his former age:1 what, thou (saith he) findest fault with, I have condemned in my selfe before.
- 1Quae tu reprehendi• e•o damnavi.