B00698:103
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.
No Christian is so happy as the watchful Christian that is careful of his duty, and to preserve his communion with the holy Spirit of God: for by entertaining him, he is sure to have communion with the Father and the Sonne. It is the happiest condition in the world, when the soul ⟨p. 117⟩is the Temple of the holy Spirit; when the heart is as The holy of holies, where there be prayers, and praises offered to GOD. The soul is as it were an holy Ark, the memory like the pot of Manna preserving heavenly truths. It is an heavenly condition, a man prospers to heavenward, when the Spirit of God is with him. You know Obed-Edom, when the Ark was in his house, all thrived with him: so while the Spirit and his motions are entertained by us, we shall be happy in life, happy in death, happy to eternity. For it is he
No Christian is so happy as the watchfull Christian that is carefull of his duty, and to preserve his communion with the holy Spirit of God: for by entertaining him, hee is sure to have communion with the Father and the Sonne. It is the happiest condition in the world, when the soule ⟨p. 117⟩is the Temple of the holy Spirit; when the heart is as The holy of holies, where there be prayers, and prayses offered to GOD. The soule is as it were an holy Arke, the memory like the pot of Mannah preserving heavenly truths. It is an heavenly condition, a man prospers to heavenward, when the Spirit of God is with him. You know Obed-Edom, when the Arke was in his house, all thrived with him: so while the Spirit and his motions are entertained by us, wee shall bee happy in life, happy in death, happy to eternity. For it is he
By which you are sealed to the day of redemption.