A12167:269
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.
Many cherish golden dreams, dream of meat,1 and when they awake, their soul is empty. Vain hopes are the dreams of waking men, as vain dreams are all the waking of sleeping and carnal men, whose life is but a dream.
Many cherish golden dreames, dreame of meat,1 and when they awake, their soule is empty. Vaine hopes are the dreames of waking men, as vaine dreams are all the waking of sleeping and carnall men, whose life is but a dreame.
In sleep there is no exercise of senses or motion: as then men are not sensible of good or ill, they move neither to good or ill: Motion followeth sensibleness: what good we are not sensible of, we move not unto: Hence sleep is of kin to death, for the time depriving us of the use of all senses; and a secure professor in appearance differs little from a dead professor; both of them are unactive in good; and what they do they do it without delight, in an uncomely and unacceptable manner, unbeseeming the state of a Christian. It is all one to have no senses, and not to use them; we may say of men in this sleepy temper, as the Scripture speaks of idols, they have eyes and see not, ears and hear not, &c▪1
In sleep there is no exercise of senses or motion: as then men are not sensible of good or ill, they move neither to good or ill: Motion followeth sensiblenesse: what good we are not sensible of, we move not unto: Hence sleep is of kin to death, for the time depriving us of the use of all senses; and a secure professour in appearance differs little from a dead professour; both of them are unactive in good; and what they do they do it without delight, in an uncomly and unacceptable manner, unbeseeming the state of a Christian. It is all one to have no senses, and not to use them; we may say of men in this sleepy temper, as the Scripture speaks of idols, they have eyes and see not, eares and heare not, &c