Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

~ _··-...,._•_~~,-~ leh thi"Poiceofm_y BelotTJed \ s. R. V. ferve the other. Now the Church having fo free- / Jy and ingenioufly confeffed whar {be couiJI againft her felf,procee,ds yet further toacquaint \ us with the particulars in her heart-waking di f- \ pt~fition : Which were two-fold,{]~ heard and i difcerned the voice 'f her Beloved,who for all her ' fleep,was herBeliJveds frill, and more then rhar, : the remembers ;~ll his fwect words and allure- j ments, whereby he prdfed her to open unto ( him, faying, opm to memy Love, my Dove, my rnd~filed, which is fet out, and amplified with a j further moving argument ofthofeinconveni~n- j cesCF!rilt had futfered in his waiting for enter– tainment in her hearr. For my head ts filled with \ dew, t~ndmy lockswiththedrop~ofthenight. All 1 which aggravltes heroffenceiand his rare good- : neffe, andpatieQce towards mifer3blefinners, fo to wait from time to time for admiffion into our wretched foules, that he may mle and governe · them by his holy Spirit.Therefore we had great need to f11un thisfleepy difl:emperoffoul,which fort he prefent fo locks up the everlajlinggates of ottr .(oule, tht~t the King ofglory cannot enter in;and to ftrive for this bleffed heart-waking difpofiti– on,whichmay help us at all times to fee our dan– gers, and by Gods bleffing recover us out of ·them,as here the Church cloth at length,though 1 firft fmarting and well beaten by the watch.mm, · 1indworld of perplexities, ere the can recover I 1 1 the fence of herformer union, and Communion withChrift. 1 I \ .And furely, we nndeby experience, what aI· I woefull i

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