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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 you see the Child of God is clean of another temper, he cannot be content to be without the presence of God and of his Spirit enlightening, quickening, strengthening and blessing of him in spiritual respects. When he finds not his presence helping him, when he finds Christ his life is absent from him, he is presently discouraged.1 For, Christ is our life. Now when a mans life fails all fails, when therefore a man finds his spiritual taste and comfort not as it was before, then oh, the life of my life hath withdrawn himself, and so is never quiet till he have recovered his life again,2 for Christ is his life.
But you see the Child of God is cleane of another temper, he cannot be content to be without the presence of God and of his Spirit inlightning, quickning, strengthening and blessing of him in spirittuall respects. When he finds not his presence helping him, when he finds Christ his life is absent from him, he is presently discouraged.1 For, Christ is our life. Now when a mans life fayles all fayles, when therefore a man finds his spirituall taste and comfort not as it was before, then oh, the life of my life hath withdrawne himselfe, and so is never quiet till he have recovered his life againe,2 for Christ is his life.