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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.
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5. This faithful dealing with our selves is oft a means of present delivery out of any trouble. David in the 32 Psalm 4. was in a great distemper both of body and spirit; his moisture was turned into the drought of summer. It is thought he made this Psalm between the time of his sin and his pardon. What course taketh he? I said (saith he) that is, I resolved to confess my sin, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Upon a free and full, a faithful, and ingenuous confession, without all guile of spirit, he found ease presently both in soul and body. The cause of Gods severe dealing with ⟨p. 86⟩us is that we should deal severely with our selves, the best trial of Religion in us is by those actions whereby we reflect on our selves by judging and condemning of our selves: for this argueth a spirit without guile. Sin and shifting came into the world together. The subtlety of proud nature, especially in eminency, is such, that sins may pass for virtues; because sin and Satan are alike in this, they cannot endure to appear in their own colour and habit; and so those that oppose it shall be accounted opposers of good. This guile of spirit hath no blessedness belonging to it, take heed of it.
5. This faithfull dealing with our selves is oft a meanes of present delivery out of any trouble. David in the 32 Psalme 4. was in a great distemper both of body and spirit; his moysture was turned into the drought of summer. It is thought he made this Psalme betweene the time of his sinne and his pardon. What course taketh he? I said (saith he) that is, I resolved to confesse my sinne, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sinne. Upon a free and full, a faithfull, and ingenuous confession, without all guile of spirit, he found ease presently both in soule and body. The cause of Gods severe dealing with ⟨p. 86⟩us is that we should deale severely with our selves, the best triall of Religion in us is by those actions whereby we reflect on our selves by judging and condemning of our selves: for this argueth a spirit without guile. Sin and shifting came into the world together. The subtilty of proud nature, especially in eminency, is such, that sinnes may passe for vertues; because sinne and Satan are alike in this, they cannot indure to appeare in their owne colour and habit; and so those that oppose it shall be accounted opposers of good. This guile of spirit hath no blessednesse belonging to it, take heed of it.