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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.
1. In regard of our natural inhability. 2. In regard of our dullness and heaviness cleaving to nature occasionally. 3. In regard of contrary winds from without, Satan hath his bellows filled with his spirit, ⟨p. 13⟩hinders the work of grace all they can, so that we need not only Christs blowing, but also his stopping other contrary winds, that they blow not, Rev. 7. 1. 4. In regard of the estate and condition of the new covenant, wherein all beginning, growth, and ending, is from Grace, and nothing but Grace. 5. Because old Grace, without a fresh supply, will not hold against new crosses and tentations.
1. In regard of our naturall inhability. 2. In regard of our dulnesse and heavines cleaving to nature occasionally. 3. In regard of contrary winds from without, Sathan hath his bellows filled with his spirit, ⟨p. 13⟩hinders the work of grace all they can, so that we need not onely Christs blowing, but also his stopping other contrary winds, that they blow not, Rev. 7. 1. 4. In regard of the estate and condition of the new convenant, wherein all beginning, growth, and ending, is from Grace, and nothing but Grace. 5. Because old Grace, without a fresh supply, will not hold against new crosses and tentations.
Therefore when Christ draws let us run after him,1 when he blows, let us open unto him, It may be the last blast that ever we shall have from him. And let us set upon Duties with this Encouragement, that Christ will blow upon us, not only to prevent us, but also to maintain his own Graces in us. But O! where is this stirring up of our selves, and one another upon these grounds?