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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.
The Passover was always eaten with sour herbs,1 because it should ad a relish to the feast. So Christ the true Passover we never relish truly without sower herbs, the consideration of sin with the desert of it. Christ savours otherwise to a man humbled for his sins, then he doth to another man not touched therewith: otherwise to a poor man then he doth to a rich: otherwise to a man that the world goes not well on his side, then to a prosperous man. One savoury discourse of Christ relisheth more to an afflicted soul, the seven discourses with such as are drunk with prosperity, not having a brain strong enough to conceive, nor an appetite to relish heavenly things.
The Passeover was alwaies eaten with sowre herbes,1 because it should ad a rellish to the feast. So Christ the true Passeover we never rellish truely without sower herbes, the consideration of sinne with the desert of it. Christ savours otherwise to a man humbled for his sinnes, then he doth to another man not touched therewith: otherwise to a poore man then he doth to a rich: otherwise to a man that the world goes not well on his side, then to a prosperous man. One savoury discourse of Christ relisheth more to an afflicted soule, the seven discourses with such as are drunk with prosperity, not having a brayne strong enough to conceive, nor an appetite to rellish heavenly things.
- 1Why the Passover was eaten with sour herbs.Why the Passeover was eaten with sowre herbes.
Therefore why do we murmur at the cross,1 when all is to recover our spiritual taste and relish? Solomon had lost his taste and relish of Christ, he never made his song of songs when he was in his Idolatrous way, nor was so in love with Christ and his excellencies when he doted so much upon his wives: no, but when he had recovered his spirits taste and relish of heavenly things once, then made he the Book of the