B00698:13
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 CONTENTS.
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God. The Holy Ghost why called a Spirit, page 3 Why holy, page 5 From the Apostles dissuasion, these four presupposed truths. 1 That the holy Ghost is in us, page 8 2 And is as a guide to us, page 12 3 The best of us are apt to grieve him, page 13 ⟨image 8⟩4 Therefore we should be careful of it, page 14 § 1. Of grieving the Spirit. I What it is to grieve the Spirit, 16. how the Spirit worketh in us, page 20 II Wherein do we especially grieve the Spirit. 1 In our selves, and that in these particulars. 1 In walking contrary to, and in neglecting of its motions, 25. and comforts, 27. seeking comfort from the flesh, page 28 2 By unkindness, 29. the sins of Professors, and those that have most acquaintance with the Spirit, grieve most, page 30 3 By presumptuous sins, 33, sins against knowledge ⟨image 8⟩of two sorts. ibid. why voluntary sins are so great, and grieve the Spirit so much, 36, the reason why sins of the second Table grieve most, 39, upon divers respects the same sort of sins may grieve more and less, page 44 4 By worldliness and paying tribute to the flesh, page 45 5 Abusing spiritual things to our own ends, 48. and fathering the works of the flesh upon the spirit, page 49 6 By sins against the Gospel, 49, slighting ordinances, page 51 7 Sins plotted and contrived, page 57 8 By false judgement of things, page 55 9 By not using the helps we have, page 58 10 Cavilling against the truth, page 59 ⟨image 9⟩11 By doing duty in our own strength, page 61 12 Thrusting our selves into over-much worldly employment, 61, whence, 13 Omission or slight performance of duty, page 63 2 In others many ways, as 1 Neglecting the grace in them, page 65 2 Sharpe censures, page 65 3 Superiors by unjust commands, page 66 4 Inferiors by untractableness, 5 By evil examples, page 68 III How we may know when we have grieved the spirit, 69 and what is the danger of it, page 71 How far a child of God may grieve the Spirit. page 76 Of the sin against the Holy Ghost, 81, and a twofold miscarriage