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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
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Yes, for what do corrections speak•, but §2amendment of the fault we are corrected for?1 so we must hear the rod, all corrections tend to this purpose, they are as knockings, that we should open to God and Christ. And because corrections of themselves will not ⟨p. 142⟩amend us. God to this kind of knocking adds a voice, he teacheth, and corrects together, Happy is that man that thou correctest, 2and teachest out of thy Law, (saith the Psalmist) Correction without teaching is to little purpose, Therefore God adds instruction to correction. He opens the conscience, so that it tells us it is for this that you are corrected, and together with conscience, gives his Spirit to tell us, it is for this, or that you are corrected: you are too blame in this; this you have done, that you should not have done; So that Corrections are knockings, but then especially when they have instruction thus with them. They are messengers from God,3 both Blessings and Corrections, they will not away (especially corrections) till they have an answer, for they are sent of God, who will add seven times more; and if the first be not answered, then he sends after them, he will be sure to have an answer, either in our Conversion, or Confusion, when he begins once.
Yes, for what doe corrections speak•, but §2amendment of the fault we are corrected for?1 so we must heare the rodd, all corrections tend to this purpose, they are as knockings, that we should open to God and Christ. And because corrections of themselves will not ⟨p. 142⟩amend us. God to this kind of knocking adds a voice, he teacheth, and corrects together, Happie is that man that thou correctest,