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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
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Sometimes where this affection of heavenly love is prevalent,1 so that a man is sick of it, the distempers thereof redounds to the body and reflects upon that, as we see in David, Psal. 32. 4. That his moisture became as the drought of summer, because there is a marriage and a sympathy between the soul and the body, wherein the excessive affections of the one redound and reflect upon the other.
Sometimes where this affection of heavenly love is prevalent,1 so that a man is sicke of it, the distempers thereof redounds to the body and reflects upon that, as we see in David, Psal. 32. 4. That his moysture became as the drought of summer, because there is a marriage and a simpathy betweene the soule and the body, wherein the excessive affections of the one redound and reflect upon the other.
Tell him that I am sick of love, here is a sickness but not unto death but unto life, a sickness that never ends but in comfort & satisfaction,1 blessed are those that hunger and thirst after Christ, they shall be satisfied, as we shall see afterwards more at large.