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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.
Some are brought asleep by music, so many §4by flattering enticements and insinuations of others joining with their own flattering deceitful heart, are cast into a spiritual sleep.
Some are brought asleepe by musicke, so many §4by flattering inticements and insinuations of others joyning with their owne flattering deceiptfull heart, are cast into a spirituall sleepe.
Sleep ariseth from want of exercise, when §5there is a cessation from spiritual exercise about the proper object of it, there followeth a spiritual sleep. Exercise keeps waking.
Sleepe ariseth from want of exercise, when §5there is a cessation from spirituall exercise about the proper object of it, there followeth a spirituall sleepe. Exercise keeps waking.
Sleep ariseth oft from cold diseases, as Lethargies; from cold gross humours; cold,§6 earthly, gross affections about the things here below, benumb the soul, and bring it into a heavy, drowsy, sleepy temper.
Sleepe ariseth oft from cold diseases, as Lethargies; from cold grosse humours; cold,§6 earthly, grosse affections about the things here below, benumne the soule, and bring it into a heavy, drowsie, sleepy temper.