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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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Hence likewise the use of a seal,1 is to show that things should be kept inviolable: hereupon the Church is as a sealed fountain; sealing shows care of preservation from common annoyance: hereupon likewise it is, that sealing is the securing of persons or things sealed from hurt. No man will violate a Letter, because ⟨p. 147⟩it is sealed: the Tomb where Christ was buried, was sealed, and the Prison doors upon Daniel, that none might meddle with them: so the Spirit of God by this work of sealing, secures Gods children, as the blood sprinkled upon the posts of the doors of the Israelites, secured them from the destroying Angel. In Ezek. 9. there was a mark set upon those that were to be preserved; that secured them; and in Revel 7. the sealed ones must not be hurt. So where this seal of the Spirit is, it is an argument that God means to preserve such a one from eternal destruction, and from prevailing dangers in this world. They are Gods ⟨p. 148⟩sealed ones, no man can hurt them without wrong to God himself, Touch not mine anointed, and do my Prophets no harm: And likewise from devouring sins, and dangerous apostasy: a man that is truly sealed by the Spirit of God, he never becomes a member of Antichrist, a stigmatized Papist (for Antichrist hath his seal too) he is kept from soul-murdering errors, he hath this security upon him by the work and witness of Gods Spirit. Whatsoever the use is, or can be, of a seal in mans affairs, that God will have us make use of in his heavenly intercourse betwixt him and us.
Hence likewise the use of a seale,1 is to shew that things should be kept inviolable: hereupon the Church is as a sealed fountain; sealing shewes care of preservation from common annoyance: hereupon likewise it is, that sealing is the securing of persons or things sealed from hurt. No man will violate a Letter, because ⟨p. 147⟩