A12167:843
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.
Let this be one motive to stir us up to it,1 that answerable to the good we shall do in this kind, shall be our comfort in l•fe and death, and our reward after death. For the more spreading our good is either in word, life, or conversation, the more our consciences shall be settled in the consideration of good life well spent, our reward shall be answerable to our communication and diffusion of good, and whereas otherwise it will lie heavy on the conscience, not only in this life, but at the day of judgement and after; when we shall think not only of the personal ill that we stand guilty of, but exemplary ill also.
Let this be one motive to stirre us up to it,1 that answerable to the good we shall doe in this kind, shall be our comfort in l•fe and death, and our reward after death. For the more spreading our good is either in word, life, or conversation, the more our consciences shall be setled in the consideration of good life well spent, our reward shall be answerable to our communication and diffusion of good, and whereas otherwise it will lie heavy on the conscience, not onely in this life, but at the day of judgement and after; when wee shall thinke not onely of the personall ill that we stand guilty of, but exemplarie ill also.
- 1That answerable to the good we shall do to others, shall b• our com•ort i• life and death.That answerable to the good we shall doe to others, shall b• our com•ort i• life and death.