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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.
A carnal man never heeds these things because he finds no sweetness in them, but the godly finding Christ in them they droop in the want of them and cannot live without them, Whither shall we goe• (saith Peter to Christ) thou hast the words of eternal life, 1I find my soul quickened with thy speaking. So a soul that feels the quickening power of the ordinances, he will never be kept from the means of salvation, but he droops and is never well till he have recovered himself again?
A carnall man never heedes these things because he finds no sweetnesse in them, but the godly finding Christ in them they droope in the want of them and cannot live without them, Whither shall we goe• (saith Peter to Christ) thou hast the words of eternall life, 1I find my soule quickned with thy speaking. So a soule that feeles the quickning power of the ordinances, he will never be kept from the meanes of salvation, but he droopes and is never well till he have recovered himselfe againe?
Again another difference may be observed. Carnal men when they find the sense of Gods anger they seek not Gods favour but think of worse and worse still, and so run from God till they be in hell. But those that are Gods children, when they fail and find the sense of Gods displeasure they are sensible of it, and ⟨p. 281⟩