B00698:130
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.
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.
Againe, things by nature worke from within: Herein painted hypocrites are distinguished from a true substantial Christian: he workes from a principle within, another man is moved as the Automata, things of motion,1 Clockes, and the like, engines of wit, that move from a weight without that poyseth them: if they doe any good, it is from somewhat without that swayeth their aymes and ends, and not from an inward principle: nature workes from an inward principle; light things goe upward, and heavie ⟨p. 136⟩things downeward, naturally: artificiall things are forced. Thus good men are distinguished from those that are seemingly holy; there is a new nature wrought in them.
- 1Simile.
Again, nature is constant; what is done naturally, is done constantly: heavy bodies go always downward, and light bodies upward: every creature works according to his nature, an holy man is exercised in holiness constantly, because he doth it from an inward principle, from a work and stamp within. Different things may seem the same; as wild herbs may have the colour and form of those that are planted in the garden,