B00698:126
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
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21 The use of it likewise is for distinction from others ⟨p. 133⟩that carry not that mark. So the sealing of the Spirit distinguisheth a Christian from all other men. There is a distinction between men, in Gods eternal purpose, but that concerns not us to meddle with, further then to know it in general.2 God knoweth who are his, and who are not his […] but in time the holy Spirit distinguisheth, and ranks men, as they were distinguished before all worlds, and as they shall be at the day of judgement: the beginning of that distinction that shall be afterwards is in this life.
21 The use of it likewise is for distinction from others ⟨p. 133⟩that carry not that mark. So the sealing of the Spirit distinguisheth a Christian from all other men. There is a distinction betweene men, in Gods eternall purpose, but that concerns not us to meddle with, further then to know it in generall.2 God knoweth who are his, and who are not his 〈…〉 but in time the holy Spirit distinguisheth, and rankes men, as they were distinguished before all worlds, and as they shall be at the day of judgement: the beginning of that distinction that shall bee afterwards is in this life.
- 12 Distinction.
- 21 Tim. 2.