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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
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Again, Join with this, that, Naturally since the fall,1 the soul of man having lost wisdom to guide it to that which is truly good, hath wit enough left to devise untoward shifts, to excuse that which is evil. In this fallen estate the former abilities to devise things throughly good, is turned to a matter of untoward wit joined with shifting.2 God made man right but he hath sought out many inventions. Carnal wit, serves carnal will very well: and carnal lusts never want an advocate to plead for them, namely carnal reason. From the bent therefore of the soul to ill things, Pleasure, Ease, and Honour, (such a condition as pleaseth the outward man since the fall) the bent and weight of the soul goeth this way, together with wit: having lost the Image of God in holy wisdom, there is shifting. This is a ground also why delays are joined with shifts.
Againe, Ioyne with this, that, Naturally since the fall,1 the soule of man having lost wisdome to guide it to that which is truly good, hath wit enough left to devise untoward shifts, to excuse that which is evill. In this fallen estate the former abilities to devise things throughly good, is turned to a matter of untoward wit joyned with shifting.2 God made man right but he hath sought out many inventions. Carnall witt, serves carnall will very well: and carnall lusts never want an advocate to plead for them, namely carnall reason. From the bent therefore of the soule to ill things, Pleasure, Ease, and Honour, (such a condition as pleaseth the outward man since the fall) the bent and weight of the soule goeth this way, together with wit: having lost the Image of God in holy wisdome, there is shifting. This is a ground also why delayes are joyned with shifts.