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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.
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.
So that we must not conceive this sleep to be that dead sleep all men are in by nature, nor to be that judiciall sleepe, that spirit of slumber which is a further degree of that naturall sleep to which God giveth up some as a seale of their desperate condition, but here is meant that sleepe 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, unlesse 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 watchfull.
For the clear understanding of this observe some correspondency in the resemblance, wherein too much curiosity is loathsome and postil-like, and calleth the mind too much from the kernel to the shell.
For the cleare understanding of this observe some correspondency in the resemblance, wherein too much curiosity is lothsome and postill-like, and calleth the mind too much from the kernell to the shell.