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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
Sermon 9 › My bowels were moved in me, &c.Sermon 9 › My bowels were mooved in mee, &c.
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.
The observation from hence is,
That security, and a cold dull state, produceth a contrary temper: that is,1 those that are cold, dull, secure, and put of Christ, he suffers them to fall into sharp sorrows and griefs.
That security, and a cold dull state, produceth a contrary temper: that is,1 those that are cold, dull, secure, and put of Christ, he suffers them to fall into sharpe so•rowes and griefes.
- 1Observ.
We usually say, cold diseases must have hot and sharp remedies; It is most true spiritually, security, which is a kind of lethargy, (a cold disease) forgetting of God, and our duty to him, must have a hot and sharp cure; And the lethargy is best cured by a Burning Ague. So Christ deals here, he puts his finger in at the hole of the door, and leaves grace behind to work upon the bowels of the Church, to make her grieve and be ashamed for her unkind dealing. Thus he cures security by sorrow. This is the best conclusion of sin.
We usually say, cold diseases must have hot and sharp remedies; It is most true spiritually, security, which is a kind of lethargy, (a cold disease) forgetting of God, and our duty to him, must have a hot and sharpe cure; And the lethargy is best cured by a Burning Ague. So Christ deales here, he puts his finger in at the hole of the doore, and leaves grace behind to worke upon the bowels of the Church, to make her grieve and be ashamed for her unkind dealing. Thus he cures security by sorrow. This is the best conclusion of sinne.