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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.
The Conscience likewise is awake; the heart §4is taken ofttimes for the conscience in Scripture,1 a good Conscience (called a merry heart) is a continual feast; Now the conscience of Gods children is never so sleepy,2 but it awaketh in some comfortable measure, though perhaps it may be deadened in a particular act, yet notwithstanding there is so much life in it,3 as upon speech, or conference, &c. there will be an opening of it and a yielding at the length to the ⟨p. 110⟩strength […] spiritual reason, his conscience is not •eared; David was but a little roused by Nathan, yet you see how h• presently confessed ingeniously that he had sinned; So when he had numbered the people,4 his conscience presently smote him, and when he resolved to kill Naball and all his family,5 which was a wicked, and carnal passion, in which there was nothing but flesh, yet when he was stopped by the advise, and the discreet counsel of Abigail, we see how presently he yielded. There is a kind of perpetual tenderness of conscience in Gods people, all the difference is; of more, or less.
The Conscience likewise is awake; the heart §4is taken ofttimes for the conscience in Scripture,1 a good Conscience (called a merry heart) is a continuall seast; Now the conscience of Gods children is never so sleepie,2 but it awaketh in some comfortable measure, though perhaps it may be deaded in a particular act, yet notwithstanding there is so much life in it,