Bowels 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 (1641)
Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635 · London : Printed by G.M. for George Edwards · leaf 254
&33 Ser.IX. The ninth Sermon* Cant. V. VI. Irofe to open to my Beloved, but my Beloved hadwithdrawne himfelfe,8cc. Aturally we are prone to delaies inheavenly things3and then to coverall with excufes. A man is a Sophi-fter to himfelfe, whom he firft de-ceives, before the Devill, or the … World deceive him ^ Which is the reafon whyfo oft in Scripture you have this mentioned. Benot deceived3 God is net mocked : Be not deceived,neither Adulterer^ nor Covttoutper [on, nor fuch andfuch, Jhall ever enter into the Kingdome of Heaven,Be not deceived. Which is an intimation, that na-turally…
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