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A fountain sealed
A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the work of the Spirit in sealing Wherein many things are handled about the Holy Spirit, and grieving of it: as also of assurance and sealing what it is, the privileges and degrees of it, with the signs to discern, and means to preserve it. Being the substance of divers sermons preached at Gray's Inn. By that reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the worke of the Spirit in sealing Wherein many things are handled about the Holy Spirit, and grieving of it: as also of assurance and sealing what it is, the priviledges and degrees of it, with the signes to discerne, and meanes to preserve it. Being the substance of divers sermons preached at Grayes Inne. By that reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.
London: printed by Thomas Harper for Lawrence Chapman, 1637
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.
Again, things by nature work from within: Herein painted hypocrites are distinguished from a true substantial Christian: he works from a principle within, another man is moved as the Automata, 1things of motion, Clocks, and the like, engines of wit, that move from a weight without that poiseth them: if they do any good, it is from somewhat without that swayeth their aims and ends, and not from an inward principle: nature works from an inward principle; light things go upward, and heavy ⟨p. 136⟩things downward, naturally: artificial things are forced. Thus good men are distinguished from those that are seemingly holy; there is a new nature wrought in them.
Againe, things by nature worke from within: Herein painted hypocrites are distinguished from a true substantial Christian: he workes from a principle within, another man is moved as the Automata, 1things of motion, Clockes, and the like, engines of wit, that move from a weight without that poyseth them: if they doe any good, it is from somewhat without that swayeth their aymes and ends, and not from an inward principle: nature workes from an inward principle; light things goe upward, and heavie ⟨p. 136⟩things downeward, naturally: artificiall things are forced. Thus good men are distinguished from those that are seemingly holy; there is a new nature wrought in them.
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Again, nature is constant, what is done naturally, is done constantly: heavy bodies go always downward, and light bodies upward: every creature works according to his nature; an holy man is exercised in holiness constantly, because he doth it from an inward principle, from a work and stamp within. Different things may seem the same; as wild herbs may have the colour and form of those that are planted in the garden;