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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
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.
CANT. V. VIII. IX. I charge you O daughters of Jerusalem if ye find my Beloved that ye tell him I am sick of love. What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved O thou fairest among women, &c.
CANT. V. VIII. IX. I charge you O daughters of Ierusalem if yee find my Beloved that ye tell him I am sicke of love. What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved O thou fairest among woemen, &c.
The soul as it is of an immortal substance, so in the right and true temper thereof, aspireth towards immortality, unless when it is clouded and overpressed with that which presseth downwards,1 and the s•n which hangeth so fast on (as the Apostle ⟨p. 316⟩speaks) which is the reason of those many and divers to•si•gs and turmoilings of the enlightened soul, now up now down, now running amain homewards and now again sluggish, idle and lazy, until roused up by extraordinary means it puts on again;2 as the fire mounteth upwards unto its proper place, and as the needle still trembleth till it stand at the North, so the soul once inflamed with an heavenly fire, and acquainted with her first original, cannot be at rest until it find it self in that comfortable way which certainly leads homewards.
THe soule as it is of an immortall substance, so in the right and true temper thereof, aspireth towards immortality, unlesse when it is clouded and overprest with that which presseth downewards,