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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.
But also Secondly, For the absence of Christs love,1 though it feel no anger. Even as to a loving Wife, her husband not looking lovingly upon her as he used to do, is enough to cast her down and cause her spirits to fail;2 so for God to look upon the soul; put the case not with an angry, yet with a countenance withdrawn, it is sufficient to cast it down, for any one that hath dependence upon another to see their countenance withdrawn and not to show their ⟨p. 276⟩face as before, if there be but a sweet disposition in them it is enough to daunt and dismay them.
But also Secondly, For the absence of Christs love,1 though it feele no anger. Even as to a loving Wife, her husband not looking lovingly upon her as he used to doe, is enough to cast her downe and cause her spirits to fayle;2 so for God to looke upon the soule; put the case not with an angry, yet with a countenance withdrawne, it is sufficient to cast it down, for any one that hath dependance upon another to see their countenance withdrawne and not to shew their ⟨p. 276⟩face as before, if there be but a sweet disposition in them it is enough to daunt and dismay them.
- 1When Christs love is absent and not felt.When Christs love is absent and not selt.
- 2Simile