A68733:157
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
The holy Spirit by which you are sealed. › Whereby you are sealed.
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.
As God in his oath and swearing joineth none to himself, but sweareth by himself: so in this witness he taketh in no other testimony to confirm it, but witnesseth by himself. And hence ariseth joy unspeakable, and glorious, and peace which passeth all understanding; for it is an extract of heaven when we see our being in the state of grace, not in the effect only, but as in the breast and bosom of God.
As God in his oath and swearing joyneth none to himselfe, but sweareth by himselfe: so in this witn•sse he taketh in no other testimony to confirme it, but witnesseth by himselfe. And hence ariseth joy unspeakeable, and glorious, and peace which passeth all understanding; for it is an extract of heaven when we see our being in the state of grace, not in the effect onely, but as in the breast and bosome of God.
1This witness of the Spirit is known from ⟨p. 170⟩