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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
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And secondly, from seeming good men, by the depth of that work, the Spirit of God works a new nature in them, whereby they are distinguished. Now nature in every creature is carried to one thing more then to another. There is a distinct propension in a good man, to God, to grace and goodness, his aims, and bent are distinct: and thereupon he hath a greater enlargement of heart suitable ⟨p. 135⟩to his great aims; he looks above the world and worldly men; they are narrow, low, base spirited men, the best of them.
And secondly, from seeming good men, by the depth of that worke, the Spirit of God workes a new nature in them, whereby they are distinguished. Now nature in every creature is carried to one thing more then to another. There is a distinct propension in a good man, to God, to grace and goodnesse, his aymes, and bent are distinct: and thereupon he hath a greater inlargement of heart sutable ⟨p. 135⟩to his great aymes; hee looks above the world and worldly men; they are narrow, low, base spirited men, the best of them.
Again, things by nature work from within: Herein painted hypocrites are distinguished from a true substantial Christian: he works from a principle within, another man is moved as the Automata, things of motion,1 Clocks, and the like, engines of wit, that move from a weight without that poiseth them: if they do any good, it is from somewhat without that swayeth their aims and ends, and not from an inward principle: nature works from an inward principle; light things go upward, and heavy ⟨p. 136⟩things downward, naturally: artificial things are forced. Thus good men are distinguished from those that are seemingly holy; there is a new nature wrought in them.