A12167:747
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 12 › They took away my veil.Sermon 12 › They tooke away my 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.
That,1 Love is a fire kindled from Heaven.
- 1Observ.
Nothing in the world will quench this Grace,1 no opposition, nay opposition rather whets and kindles endeavour.
- 1Can. 8. 7.
The Church was nothing discouraged by the ill usage of the Watchmen, 1only she complains she is not insensible. A Christian may without sin be sensible of indignities, only it must be the mourning of Doves, 2and not the roaring of Bears. It must not be murmuring and impatience, but a humble complaining to God, that he may take our caSe to heart, as the Church doth here: But as sensible as she was, she was not a whit discouraged, but seeks after Christ still in other means, if she find him not in one, she will try in an other: we see hear the nature of love, if it be in any measure perfect, it casteth out all fear of discouragements.
The Church was nothing discouraged by the ill usage of the Watch•en,