B00698:100
A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the…
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 means 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, 1638
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.
1Therefore to stir us up to the practise of these duties, that we may give contentment to so sweet a guest, consider what reason we have, to regard the Spirit, and his motions, from the good we have by them.
1Therefore to stirre us up to the practise of these duties, that wee may give contentment to so sweet a guest, consider what reason we have, to regard the Spirit, and his motions, from the good we have by them.
- 1Motives not to grieve the Spirit.
The holy Spirit of God is our guide: who will displease his guide? A sweet comfortable guide that ⟨p. 113⟩leads us through the wilderness of this world, as the cloud before the Israelites, by day, and the pillar of fire by night: so he conducts us to the heavenly Canaan; if we grieve our guide, we cause him to leave us to our selves. The Israelites would not go a steppe further then GOD by his Angel went before them. It is in vain for us to make toward heaven without our blessed guide; we cannot do, nor speak, nor think any thing that is holy and good, without him: whatsoever is holy, and pious, it grows not in our garden, in our nature, but it is planted by the Spirit.
The holy Spirit of God is our guide: who will displease his guide? A sweet comfortable guide that ⟨p. 113⟩leades us through the wildernesse of this world, as the cloud before the Israelites, by day, and the pillar of fire by night: so hee conducts us to the heavenly Canaan; if wee grieve our guide, we cause him to leave us to our selves. The Israelites would not goe a steppe further then GOD by his Angell went before them. It is in vaine for us to make toward heaven without our blessed guide; wee cannot doe, nor speake, nor thinke any thing that is holy and good, without him: whatsoever is holy, and pious, it growes not in our garden, in our nature, but it is planted by the Spirit.