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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.
This is excellently set down in the sweet communion of marriage, the Spirit is the paranymphos, the procurer of the marriage, between▪ Christ and the soul. Now it is not sufficient to know that God and Christ bear good will to all believers (though that be the ground, and general foundation of all, and a great preparative to the special sealing of the Spirit) but ⟨p. 131⟩then the Spirit comes, and saith, Christ hath a special good will to me, and stirs up in me a liking to him again, to take him upon his own conditions, with conflict of corruptions, with the scorns of the world, &c. Whereupon the mutual marriage is made up between Christ and us: this work is the sealing of the Spirit.
This is excellently set downe in the sweet communion of marriage, the Spirit is the paranymphos, the procurer of the marriage, betweene▪ Christ and the soule. Now it is not sufficient to know that God and Christ beare good will to all beleevers (though that be the ground, and generall foundation of all, and a great preparative to the speciall sealing of the Spirit) but ⟨p. 131⟩then the Spirit comes, and saith, Christ hath a speciall good will to me, and stirres up in mee a liking to him againe, to take him upon his owne conditions, with conflict of corruptions, with the scornes of the world, &c. Whereupon the mutuall marriage is made up betweene Christ and us: this worke is the sealing of the Spirit.
Many are the privileges of a Christian from this his sealing, as the use of a seal in mans affairs is manifold.
Many are the priviledges of a Christian from this his sealing, as the use of a seale in mans affaires is manifold.