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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.
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.
Bodily and spiritual sleep resemble each the other in the causes,1 in the effects, and in the dangerous issue.
Bodily and spirituall sleepe resemble each the other in the causes,1 in the effects, and in the dangerous issue.
- 1The resemblance between bodily and spiritual sleep,The resemblance between bodily and spirit••ll sleep,
The sleep of the body cometh from the obstruction and binding up of the senses by vapours which arise out of the stomach: So there be spiritual fumes of worldly cares and desires that obstruct the senses of the soul: therefore our blessed Saviour counts it a spiritual surfeiting, when the soul is oppressed with care about the world;1