B00698:112
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.
The holy Spirit by which you are sealed.
The holy Ghost delighteth to speak in our own language: we cannot rise to him, therefore he stoopeth to us.
THe holy Ghost delighteth to speake in our owne language: we cannot rise to him, therfore he stoopeth to us.
This sealing is either sealing of persons, or of good things intended to the persons. Sealing is not only a witnessing to us, but a work upon us, and in us, carrying the Image of him that sealeth us, whereby we are not only assured of the good ⟨p. 122⟩promised to us, but fitted for the receiving of it. God prepareth no good for any but whom he prepares and fits for that good. There is not only an outward authorising of the great grants we have by promise, oath, and Sacrament; but an inward, by the spirit: persuading of our interest in them, and working that which doth authorise us to lay claim unto them after the use of a seal, both in confirmation and representation, and resemblance of him that sealed.
This sealing is either sealing of persons, or of good things intended to the persons. Sealing is not onely a witnessing to us, but a worke upon us, and in us, carrying the Image of him that sealeth us, whereby we are not onely assured of the good