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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.
THE SEVENTH SERMON.1
- 1SER. VII.
CANT. V. II. III. My Love, my Dove, my Undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. I have put of my coat, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
CANT. V. II. III. My Love, my Dove, my Vndefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the dropps of the night. I have put of my coate, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
Hat the life of a Christian is a perpetual conflicting, appears evidently in this Book, the passages whereof joined with our own expe•iences, s••fici•ntly declare what combats, Trials, and temptations the Sa••ts are subject unto ⟨p. 183⟩after their new birth and change of life, now up, now down, now full of good resolutions, now again sluggish and slow not to be waked, nor brought forwards by the voice of Christ, as it was with the Church here, she will not out of her sleep to open unto Christ, though he call and knock, and stand waiting for entrance. She is now desirous to pity her self, and needs no Peter to stir her up unto it, the flesh of it self is prone enough to draw back, and make excuses to hinder the power of grace from its due operation in us. She is laid along (as it were) to rest her; yet is not she so asleep, but she discerns the voice of Christ, but up and rise she will not