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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.
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.
Tell him that I am sicke of love, here is a sicknes but not unto death but unto life, a sicknesse 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.
Knowledge gives not the denomination, for we may know •ll and be good, and we m•y know good and be evil, but it is the affection of the soul which cleaves to the things known,1 the truth of our love is that gives the denomination of a state to be good or ill, love is the weight and wing of the soul, which carries it where it goes, which if it carry usto earth we are base and earthly, if to heaven, heavenly, we should have especial care how we fix this affection; for thereafter as it is, even so is our condition, Ask thy love of what City thou art whether of Jerusalem or of Babylon, (as Austin saith) Now the daughters of Jerusalem reply unto the Church wondering at her earnestness.
Knowledge gives not the denomination, for we may know •ll and be good, and we m•y know good and be evill, but it is the affection of the soule which cleaves to the things known,