B00698:139
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.
Whereby you are sealed.
1Now there are divers degrees of the Spirits sealing.
- 1Degrees of sealing.
1 Faith:1 He that believes hath the witness in himself. 1 Joh. 5.10. he carries in his heart the counterpane of all the promises. This grace is first planted in the heart, and answereth to Gods love and purpose towards us of giving eternal life: the seal and first discovery of election is manifested to us in our believing, Act. 13.48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. This believing is also a seal to us, in that it is of whose gifts that accompany salvation, of ⟨p. 150⟩which GOD never repents him by calling back again, it is a feed that abideth for ever.
1 Faith:1 Hee that beleeves hath the witnesse in himselfe. 1 Ioh. 5.10. hee carries in his heart the counterpane of all the promises. This grace is first planted in the heart, and answereth to Gods love and purpose towards us of giving eternall life: the seale and first discovery of election is manifested to us in our beleeving,