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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 4 › I sleep but my heart waketh.Sermon 4 › 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.
But all is not in the judgement.1 The child of God asleep hath a working in the will, choosing the better part which he will cleave too, he hath a general purpose to please God in all things, and no settled purpose in particular for to sleep thus: answerable to his judgement therefore he chooseth the better part, and side, he owns God, and his cause, even in evil times, cleaving in resolution of heart to the best ways, though with weakness.
But all is not in the judgement.1 The child of God asleep hath a working in the will, choosing the better part which he will cleave too, he hath a generall purpose to please God in all things, and no setled purpose in particular for to sleepe thus: answerable to his judgement therefore he chooseth the better part, and side, he ownes God, and his cause, even in evill times, cleaving in resolution of heart to the best wayes, though with weakenesse.
- 1A choice of good remaineth in the will.
Take David in his sleepy time between his repentance, and his foul sin, if one should have asked him what he thought of the ways of God, and of the contrary, he would have given you an answer out of sound judgement thus and thus, If you should have asked him what course he would have followed in his choice resolution, and purpose, he would have answered savourly.
Take David in his sleepie time betweene his repentance, and his foule sinne, if one should have asked him what he thought of the wayes of God, and of the contrary, he would have given you an answer out of sound judgement thus and thus, If you should have asked him what course he would have followed in his choice resolution, and purpose, hee would have answered savourly.