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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.
I but if I be thus precise, the times are so bad,1 I shall be alone.
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Complain not of the times when thou makest them worse,1 thou shouldest make the times better, the worse the times are, the better be thou,2 for this is thy glory to be good in an evil generation. This was Lots glory. Paul tells what ill times they were, But saith he, Our conversation is in Heaven, from whence we look for a Saviour: What brings destruction on Gods people, but their joining with the wicked. When they joined with the children of men, then came the flood, these and the like pretences, keep men altogether from goodness, or else from such a measure, as may bring honour to God and comfort to themselves.
Complaine not of the times when thou makest them worse,1 thou shouldest make the times better, the worse the times are, the better be thou,2 for this is thy glory to be good in an evill generation. This was Lots glory. Paul tells what ill times they were, But saith hee, Our conversation is in Heaven, from whe•ce wee looke for a Saviour: What brings destruction on Gods people, but their joyning with the wicked. When they joyned with the children of men, then came the flood, these and the like pretences, keepe men altogether from goodnesse, or else from such a measure, as may bring honour to God and comfort to themselves.
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