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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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And also, To make us to know throughly the bitterness of sin, 1that we may grow to a further hatred of that which deprives us of so sweet a communion; We think sin a trifle, and never know it enough till the time of temptation, that conscience be awakened and opened, that it appears in its right colours.
And also, To make us to know throughly the bitternesse of sinne, 1that we may grow to a further hatred of that which deprives us of so sweete a communion; Wee thinke sinne a trifle, and never know it enough till the time of temptation, that conscience be awakened and opened, that it appeares in its right colours.
- 1That we may know throughly what the bitterness of sin is.That wee may know throughly what the bitternesse of sin is.
And then again, That we may know what Christ suffered,1 and underwent for us in the sense of Gods wrath, in the absence of his favour for a time. This the humane Nature could never have suffered, if his divinity had withdrawn it self. Now all of us must sip of that cup, whereof Christ drank the dregs, having a taste what it is to have God to forsake us, for the most part, those believers who live any time, (especially those of great parts,) God deals thus with, weaker Christians he is more indulgent unto; at such times we know of what use a Mediator is, and how miserable our condition were without such an one, both to have borne and overcome the wrath of God for us, which ⟨p. 250⟩burden he could never have undergone, but had sunk under it, but for the Hypostatical u on.