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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.
But I shall loose my pleasure?1
- 1Object.
O but such pleasures end in death;1 they are but pleasures of sin for a season, and thou shalt not loose by the change, the ways of wisdom are pleasant ways, one day religiously spent in keeping of a good conscience, what a sweet farewell hath it? Joy is in the habitation of the Righteous. It becomes the Righteous to be joyful. How ever outwardly it seems yet there is a Paradise within. Many such objections the flesh makes, some take scandal at the prosperity of the wicked, and affliction of the Saints, ⟨p. 212⟩and from hence take occasion to ro• in their dregs of sin,2 but what saith Christ, Happy is the man who is not offended in m•e. As for the prosperity of the wicked, envy them not, they stand in slippery places, and flourish like a green bay tree, but presently they vanish. Take no offence at them nor at the cross, look not at this,3 but at the ensuing comfort. Blessed are they that suffer for Righteousness sake, bind such words to your he•d as your crown, Go• reserves the best comforts to the worst times, his people never find it otherwise.
O but such pleasures end in death;1 they are but pleasures of sinne for a season, and thou shalt not loose by the change, the wayes of wisdome are pleasant wayes, one day religiously spent in keeping of a good conscience, what a sweet farewell hath it? Ioy is in the habitation of the Righteous. It becomes the Righteou to be jyfull. How ever outwardly it seemes yet there is a Paradise within. Many such objections the flesh makes, some take scandall at the prosperity of the wicked, and affliction of the Saints,