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The privy key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse…The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse…
The privy key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks.The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks.
London : Printed for and are to be sold by John Hancock, 1665
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.
Seventhly, The people of God 1first or last, are sealed by the Spirit, Ephes. 1. 13. In whom after the believed ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of promise. The nature of sealing consists in the imparting of the image or Character of the Seal to the thing sealed. To seal a thing is to stamp the character of the Seal on it. Now the Spirit of God doth really and effectually communicate the image of God to us, which image consists in righteousness and true holiness. Then are we truly sealed by the Spirit of God, when the holy Ghost stamps the image ⟨p. 229⟩of grace and holiness so obviously, so evidently upon the soul, as that the soul sees it, feels it, and can run and read it; then the soul is sealed by the holy Spirit. So Ephes. 4. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. The Person of the Holy-Ghost is here set forth in the Greek with a very great energy, such as our Tongue is not able fully to express.
Seventhly, The people of God 1first or last, are sealed by the Spirit, Ephes. 1. 13. In whom after ye believed ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of promise. The nature of sealing consists in the imparting of the image or Character of the Seal to the thing sealed. To seal a thing is to stamp the character of the Seal on it. Now the Spirit of God doth really and effectually communicate the image of God to us, which image consists in righteousness and true holiness. Then are we truly sealed by the Spirit of God, when the holy Ghost stamps the image ⟨p. 229⟩of grace and holiness so obviously, so evidently upon the soul, as that the soul sees it, feels it, and can run and read it; then the soul is sealed by the holy Spirit. So Ephes. 4. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. The Person of the Holy-Ghost is here set forth in the Greek with a very great energy, such as our Tongue is not able fully to express.