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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.
1.1 Now we know that sleep is creeping upon us, by comparing our present condition with our former, when we were in a more wakeful frame. When the graces of Gods Spirit were in exercise in us. If we differ from that we were, then all is not well.
1.1 Now we know that sleep is creeping upon us, by comparing our present condition with our former, when we were in a more wakefull frame. When the graces of Gods Spirit were in exercise in us. If we differ from that we were, then all is not well.
- 1Signs of a sleepy state.Signes of a sleepy state.
2. Compare our selves again with that state and frame that a Christian should be in: for sometimes a Christian goes under an uncomfortable condition, all the days of his life, so that he is not fit to make himself his pattern. The true rule is, that description that is in the word of a waking and living Christian, what should a man be, take him at the best, the varying from that is a sleepy estate; as for instance,1 A Christian should walk in the Comfort of the Holy Ghost, live and walk by faith, he should depend upon God, and resist temptations. Faith should work by love, and love to our selves should move us to honour our selves as members of Christ, to disdain to defile our selves by sin, our hope if it be waking will purge us and make us suitable to the condition we hope for in Heaven, and the Company we hope to have fellowship with there.
2. Compare our selves againe with that state and frame that a Christian should bee in: for sometimes a Christian goes under an uncomfortable condition, all the daies of his life, so that hee is not fit to make himselfe his patterne. The true rule is, that description that is in the word of a waking and living Christian, what should a man be, take him at the best, the varying from that is a sleepie estate; as for instance,