B00698:133
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.
A Christian is Gods in a more peculiar manner than others; there is not only a witness of the Spirit that God is his, but the Spirit works in him an assent to take God again: there is a mutual appropriation,1 I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; when the soul can say, thou art my God, it is not frustrate; because God saith before, I am thy salvation: where the Spirit seals, God appropriates:2 GOD chooseth the righteous man to himself. And we may ⟨p. 140⟩know this appropriation by appropriating God again; Whom have I in heaven but thee, 3and what have I in earth in comparison of thee? There is no action that God works upon the soul, but there is a reflect action by the Spirit to God again. If God choose and love us, we choose and love him again. God appropriates us first: we are his, and we are Christs; we are Gods, because he hath given Christ for us; we are Christs, because he hath given himself for us; we are, as the Apostle saith, a people of acquisition, A people purchased, purchased at a dear rate by the blood of CHRIST; those that are Christs, the Spirit appropriates them: ⟨p. 141⟩this appropriation is by sealing.
A Christian is Gods in a more peculiar manner than others; there is not onely a witnesse of the Spirit that God is his, but the Spirit workes in him an assent to take God againe: there is a mutuall appropriation,1 I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; when the soule can say, thou art my God, it is not frustrate; because God saith before, I am thy salvation: where the Spirit seales, God appropriates:2 GOD chooseth the righteous man to himselfe. And wee may ⟨p. 140⟩know this appropriation by appropriating God againe; Whom have I in heaven but thee,