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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 11 › I called but he gave no answer &c.Sermon 11 › I called but hee gave no answer &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.
I called but he gave no answer &c.
I called but hee gave no answer &c.
Directions how to carry our selves in such ⟨p. 288⟩an estate. How shall we carry our selves when it falls out that our hearts fail of that we seek for, when we pray without success & find not a present answer? or are in any such like state of desertion.
Directions how to carry our selves in such ⟨p. 288⟩an estate. How shall we carry our selves when it falls out that our hearts faile of that we seek for, whē we pray without succes & find not a presēt answer? or are in any such like state of desertion.
1. We must believe against belief (as it were) hope against hope, and trust in God, 1Howsoever he shows himself to us as an opposite. It is no matter what his present dealing with his Church and children here is, the nature of Faith is to break through all opposition, to see the Sun behind a cloud,2 nay to see one contrary in another, life in death, a calm in a storm &c.