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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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Seals likewise are used for secrecy,1 as in Letters, &c. so this seal of the Spirit ⟨p. 145⟩is a secret work, GOD knoweth who are his, they are only known to him, and to their own hearts; The white stone is only known to him that hath it, 2and the hidden Manna: none so infallibly can know the state in grace, as those that have the gracious work themselves. Holy men in some degree are known one to another, to make the communion of Saints the sweeter: there is a great deal of spiritual likeness in Christians, face answereth to face; that one hath strong confidence of the salvation of another: but the undoubted certainty of a mans estate is known only to God, and his own soul: nay, sometimes it is hidden from a ⟨p. 146⟩mans self; there are so many infirmities, and abasements, and troubles in the world, that this life is called a hidden life in Scripture: our life is hid with Christ in God: it is unknown to the Saints themselves sometimes, and the world alway; they neither know him that begets, nor them that are begotten.
Seales likewise are used for secresie,1 as in Letters, &c. so this seale of the Spirit ⟨p. 145⟩is a secret worke, GOD knoweth who are his, they are onely knowne to him, and to their owne hearts; The white stone is onely knowne to him that hath it, 2and the hidden Mannah: none so infallibly can know the state in grace, as those that have the gracious worke themselves. Holy men in some degree are knowne one to another, to make the communion of Saints the sweeter: there is a great deale of spirituall likenesse in Christians, face answereth to face; that one hath strong confidence of the salvation of another: but the undoubted certainty of a mans estate is knowne onely to God, and his owne soule: nay, sometimes it is hidden from a