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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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And besides his Spirit, God hath planted in §6us a Conscience to call upon us,1 to be his Vicar, a little god in us to do his office, to call upon us, direct us, check, and condemn us, which in great mercy he hath placed in us.
And besides his Spirit, God hath planted in §6us a Conscience to call upon us,1 to be his Vicar, a little god in us to doe his office, to call upon us, direct us, checke, and condemne us, which in great mercy he hath placed in us.
- 1The Conscience also knocks.The Conscience also knockes.
Thus we see what means Christ useth here; ⟨p. 146⟩His voice, Works, and Word, works of Mercy and of Correction, his Word together with his Spirit, and the Conscience, that he hath planted to be (as it were) a God in us, which together with his Spirit may move us to duty. This Augustine speaks of when he saith,1 Deus in me, &c. God spake in me oft, and I knew it not; He means it of Conscience together with the Spirit, stirring up motives to leave his sinful courses. God knocked in me, and I considered it not. J cried, modò and modò, sine modo. I put of God, now I will, and now I will, but I had no moderation, I knew no limits. And whilst Christ thus knocketh, all the three Persons may be said to do it. For as it is said else where, that God was and is in Christ reconciling the world,