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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.
Awake, thou North-wind, and come thou South, and blow upon my Garden, &c.
For the first Point named, we see here, that Christ sends forth his Spirit, with Command to all means, under the name of North and South wind, to further the fruitfulness of his Church. The wind is natures fan, what winds are to the Garden, that the Spirit of Christ, in the use of means, is to the soul. From Comparison fetched from Christs commanding the winds; We may in general observe,1 That, All Creatures stand in obedience to Christ, as ready at a word, whensoever he speaks to them. They are all as it were asleep until he awakes them. He can call for the wind out of his treasures when he pleases, he holds them in his fist.
For the first Point named, we see here, that Christ sends forth his Spirit, with Command to all meanes, under the name of North and South wind, to further the fruitfulnesse of his Church. The wind is natures fanne, what winds are to the Garden, that the Spirit of Christ, in the use of meanes, is to the soule. From Comparison fetcht from Christs commanding the winds; We may in generall observe,1 That, All Creatures stand in obedience to Christ, as ready at a word, whensoever he speakes to them. They are all as it were asleepe untill he awakes them. He can call for the wind out of his treasures when he pleases, he holds them in his fist.
- 1Observation from Christs commanding the winds.