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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
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.
And surely, we find by experience, what a woeful thing it is for the soul, which hath once tasted how gracious the Lord is, to be long without a sense of Gods love, For when it looks upon sin as the cause of this separation; this is for the time, as so many deaths unto it. Therefore the Churches experience must be our warning-piece to take heed how we grieve the Spirit, and so fall into this spiritual sleep: Wherein yet this is a good sign, that yet we are not in a desperate dead sleep, when we can with her say,
And surely, we find by experience, what a woefull thing it is for the soule, which hath once tasted how gracious the Lord is, to be long without a sence of Gods love, For when it lookes upon sinne as the cause of this seperation; this is for the time, as so many deaths unto it. Therefore the Churches experience must be our warning-peece to take heed how we grieve the Spirit, and so fall into this spirituall sleepe: Wherein yet this is a good signe, that yet we are not in a desperate dead sleepe, when we can with her say,
It is the voice of my Beloved that knocks, saying, open unto me, &c.
It is the voice of my Beloved that knocks, saying, open unto mee, &c.
In which words you have, 1. The Churches acknowledgement of Christs voice. 2. Of his carriage towards her.
In which words you have, 1. The Churches acknowledgment of Christs voice. 2. Of his carriage towards her.