A12167:721
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 › What is it to take away the veil.Sermon 11 › What is it to take away the vaile.
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.
Sometimes it falls out from a spirit of envy ⟨p. 297⟩in them at the graces of Gods people which are wanting in themselves, they would not have others better then themselves.
Sometimes it falls out from a spirit of envie ⟨p. 297⟩in them at the graces of Gods people which are wanting in themselves, they would not have others better then themselves.
Sometimes from Idleness which makes them hate all such as provoke them to pains: they raise up the dignity of outward things too much, as we see in Popery, they make every thing to confer grace, as if they had a special virtue in them: but they neglect that wherewith God hath joined an efficacy, his own ordinances.
Sometimes from Idlenesse which makes them hate all such as provoke them to paines: they raise up the dignity of outward things too much, as wee see in Poperie, they make every thing to conferre grace, as if they had a speciall vertue in them: but they neglect that wherewith God hath joyned an efficacie, his owne ordinances.
This should teach us,1 To be in love with Christs government, and to see the vanity of all things here below, though they be never so excellent in their ordinance. Such is the poison of mans heart, and the malice of Satan that they turn the edge of the best things against the good of the Church.