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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.
Blow upon his Garden.
[To blow, &c.] See here the order, linking and concatenation of things one under another, to the prospering of a poor flower or plant in a Garden; not only soil is needful, but air and wind also, and the influence of Heaven: and God commanding all, as here, the winds to Blow upon his Garden. To this end as a wonderful mercy to his people, it is said Hos. 2. 22. And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear saith the Lord, I will hear the Heavens, and they shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the corn, the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. As the Creatures are ⟨p. 12⟩from God, so the order and dependence of creatures one from another: to teach us, not only what to pray for, but also what to pray fitly for. Not only to pray for the dew of heaven, but also for seasonable and cherishing winds. It is not the soil, 1but the season that makes fruitful; and that from seasonable winds and influences. So, In spiritual things there is a Chain of Causes and Effects; Prayer comes from Faith, Rom. 10. 14. Faith from the Hearing of the Word, Hearing from a Preacher; by whom God by his Spirit blows upon the heart: and a Preacher from Gods sending. If the God of Nature should but hinder and take away one link of natures chain, the whole frame would be disturbed. Well, That which Christ commands here, is for the winds to
[To blow, &c.] See here the order, linking and concatination of things one under another, to the prospering of a poore flower or plant in a Garden; not onely soyle is needfull, but ayre and wind also, and the influence of Heaven: and God commanding all, as here, the winds to Blow upon his Garden. To this end as a wonderfull mercy to his people, it is said