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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.
Upon divers respects some sin may grieve more or less than another.1 As the •oly Ghost is a Spirit, so spiritual sins grieve most; •s pride, envy; imprinting upon the soul as it were, a character of the contrary ill ••irit. Carnal sins, whereby the soul is drowned in delight of the body, may ••ore grieve the spirit in another respect; as defiling ••is Temple, and as taking away so much of the soul; •ove and delight, carry the soul with them, and the more deeply such sins enter into the creature, besides the defilement, the less strength it hath to spiritual ⟨p. 44⟩duties: grace is sca•ed in the powers of nature, now carnal sins disable nature• and so sets us in a greate• distance from grace, as taking away the heart, Hos. 4. Hereupon the Apostle sets being filled with wine, contrary to being filled with the Spirit. 2And hence it is the Apostle forbids, in the former words, unclean communication: the holy Spirit is a Spirit of truth, hates hypocrites; being painted sepulchres; but as a spirit• of purity, hates foul •ivers, and foul-mouthed speakers, as open sepulchres. They cannot therefore but much grieve the spirit, that feed corrupt lusts, and study to give contentment, and pay tribute, to the ⟨p. 45⟩flesh; to which they owe no service and are no debtors: •nd by sowing to the flesh from which we can reap nothing but corruption.