NICHOL'S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES. PURITAN PERIOD. With General Preface BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D., LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN'S, BIRMINGHAM. THE WORKS OF RICHARD SIBBES, D.D. VOL. II. COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION. W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh. JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh. THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh. D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. General Editor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH. OF RICHARD SIBBES, D.D., MASTER OF CATHERINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE; PREACHER OF GRAY'S INN, LONDON. Edited, with Memoir, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART, (COR. MEMB. SOC. ANTIQ. OF SCOTLAND) KINROSS. Um VOL. II. CONTAINING : BOWELS OPENED; OR, A DISCOVERY OF THE NEAR AND DEAR LOVE, UNION AND COMMUNION, BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE CHURCH- THE SPOUSE, HER EARNEST DESIRE AFTER CHRIST-A BREATHING AFTER GOD— THE MARRIAGE FEAST BETWEEN CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON. M.DCCC.LXII. 10-23-0 CONTENTS. BOWELS OPENED; To the Christian Reader, by John Dods, A table of the chief heads and contents of the following Sermons There is the same regard of the whole church, and of every par- ticular member, in regard of the chiefest privileges and graces that accompany salvation, All creatures stand in obedience to Christ, The courses that Christ takes with his church may seem con- trary, but by a wise ordering all agree in the wholesome issue, In what respects the Spirit of God is compared to wind, In what respects we need the blowing of the Spirit, In what respects the church is compared to a garden Christians should walk as men of a severed condition from the We need not only grace to put life into us at the first, but like- It is not enough to be good ourselves, but our goodness must Where once God begins he goes on, and adds encouragement to encouragement, to maintain new setters up in religion, Wheresoever grace is truly begun, there is still a further desire Why the church is so earnest in desiring the presence of Christ, A gracious heart is privy to its own grace when it is in a right 12 |