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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.
In this mixed condition the flesh for the present prevailed, yet so as the spirit had its working, she slept, but her heart waked.
In this mixt condition the flesh for the present prevailed, yet so as the spirit had its working, she slept, but her heart waked.
The words contain a confession, I sleep, and a correction, but my heart waketh. She hath a double aspect, one to the ill, her sleeping: the other to her good, her heart in some degree awaked. ⟨p. 88⟩The Spirit of God is a discerning spirit, it discovereth what is flesh and what is spirit.
The words containe a confession, I sleep, and a correction, but my heart waketh. She hath a double aspect, one to the ill, her sleeping: the other to her good, her heart in some degree awaked. ⟨p. 88⟩The Spirit of God is a discerning spirit, it discovereth what is flesh and what is spirit.
So that we must not conceive this sleep to be that dead sleep all men are in by nature, nor to be that judicial sleep, that spirit of slumber which is a further degree of that natural sleep to which God giveth up some as a seal of their desperate condition, but here is meant that sleep that ariseth out of the remainder of corruption unsubdued, and now is here in the Church prevailing over the better part. Flesh and Spirit have both their intercourse in us as Moses and Amalek had, unless we stand upon our guard, the flesh will get the upper ground, as we see here. The best are no further safe than they are watchful.