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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.
Men will draw the curtains and shut out light, when they mean to compose themselves to rest. So when men favour themselves in some ways not allowable, they are afraid to be disquieted by the light; light both discovereth, awaketh, and stirs up to working: And men when they are loth to do what they know, are loth to know what they should do. They that sleep in the night. 1Asa, otherwise a good King, shut up •he Prophet in prison for doing his duty: Much of the anger that men bear against the word laid open to them is because it will not suffer them to sleep quietly in their sins. Such as will suffer them to live quietly in their ⟨p. 91⟩sins; they are the quiet and honest men. There cannot be a worse sign than when men will not endure wholesome words, it is a sign they are in an ill league with that they should above all wage war against.
Men will draw the curtains and shut out light, when they meane to compose themselves to rest. So when men favour themselves in some wayes not allowable, they are afraid to be disquieted by the light; light both discovereth, awaketh, and stirres up to working: And men when they are loth to do what they know, are loth to know what they should do. They that sleepe in the night. 1Asa, otherwise a good King, shut up •he Prophet in prisoa for doing his duty: Much of the anger that men beare against the word laid open to them is because it will not suffer them to sleepe quietly in their sinnes. Such as will suffer them to live quietly in their ⟨p. 91⟩sinnes; they are the quiet and honest men. There cannot be a worse signe than when men will not indure wholsome words, it is a signe they are in an ill league with that they should above all wage warre against.