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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 10 › My soul failed when he spake.Sermon 10 › My soule failed when hee spake.
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 necessity of our souls and of our estates requ•e this,1 as sometimes a body may be so ⟨p. 273⟩[…] ⟨p. 274⟩[…] ⟨p. 275⟩corrupt that it must be brought as low as possible may be before there will be a spring of new and good blood and spirits: so we may fall into such a state of security that nothing will bring us to a right temper, but extreme purging. And usually God deals thus with strong wits and parts (if they be holy) David and Solomon were men excellently qualified, yet when they tasted of the pleasures and contentments of the world too deep, answerably they had and so (usually) others shall have such desertions as will make them smart for their sweetness, as was showed before;
The necessity of our soules and of our estates requ•e this,1 as sometimes a body may be so ⟨p. 273⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 274⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 275⟩corrupt that it must be brought as low as possible may be before there will be a spring of new and good blood and spirits: so we may fall into such a state of security that nothing will bring us to a right temper, but extreame purging. And usually God deales thus with strong wits and parts (if they be holy) David and Salomon were men excellently quallified, yet when they tasted of the pleasures and contentments of the world too deepe, answerably they had and so (usually) others shall have such desertions as will make them smart for their sweetnesse, as was shewed before;