B00698:122
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.
I believe, saith the soul, therefore the promise belongs to me, my faith answering Gods ⟨p. 129⟩love in the promise, witnesseth so much to me. The Spirit not only revealeth Christ, and the promises in general, but in attending upon the ordinances by an heavenly light: the spirit discovers to us our interest in particular, and saith to the soul, God is thy salvation; and enableth the soul to say, I am Gods: I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine. Christ loved me, and gave himself for me. Whence came this voice of Saint Paul? It was the still voice of the Spirit of GOD; that, together with the general truth in the Gospel, discovered in particular Christs love to him. It is not a general faith that will bring to heaven, but ⟨p. 130⟩there is a special work of the Spirit (in the use of means) discovering and sealing the good will of God to us, that he intends good unto us; and thereupon our hearts are persuaded to believe in God, and to love God as our God, and Christ as our Christ.
I beleeve, saith the soule, therefore the promise belongs to mee, my faith answering Gods ⟨p. 129⟩love in the promise, witnesseth so much to mee. The Spirit not onely revealeth Christ, and the promises in generall, but in attending upon the ordinances by an heavenly light: the spirit discovers to us our interest in particular, and saith to the soule, God is thy salvation; and inableth the soule to say, I am Gods: I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine. Christ loved mee, and gave himselfe for mee. Whence came this voyce of Saint Paul? It was the still voyce of the Spirit of GOD; that, together with the generall truth in the Gospell, discovered in particular Christs love to him. It is not a generall faith that will bring to heaven, but ⟨p. 130⟩there is a speciall worke of the Spirit (in the use of means) discovering and sealing the good will of God to us, that hee intends good unto us; and thereupon our hearts are perswaded to beleeve in God, and to love God as our God, and Christ as our Christ.