B00698:142
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.
12 The work of sanctifying grace upon the heart, is a seal, whom the spirit sanctifieth, he saveth. The Lord knoweth who are his: but how shall we know it? By this seal, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord, depart from iniquity: not only in heart and affection, but in conversation, and that shall be a seal of his Sonship to him: none are children of God by adoption, but those that are children also by regeneration: none are heirs of heaven, but they are newborn to it. Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 151⟩Christ, who hath begotten us a new to an inheritance immortal, &c. This seal of sanctification leaves upon the soul the likeness of Jesus Christ, even grace for grace.
12 The worke of sanctifying grace upon the heart, is a seale, whom the spirit sanctifieth, hee saveth. The Lord knoweth who are his: but how shall wee know it? By this seale, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord, depart from iniquity: not onely in heart and affection, but in conversation, and that shall bee a seale of his Sonneship to him: none are children of God by adoption, but those that are children also by regeneration: none are heires of heaven, but they are newborne to it. Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Iesus ⟨p. 151⟩Christ, who hath begotten us a new to an inheritance immortall, &c. This seale of sanctification leaves upon the soule the likenesse of Iesus Christ, even grace for grace.
- 12 Sanctification.
But because in time of desertion and temptation we are in a mist, and cannot read our own faith, and our own graces, it pleaseth Christ after some trial and exercise to shine upon his own graces in the heart, whereby we may know we believe, and know we love: until which time the heart sees nothing that is good, and seems to be nothing but all objections, and doubtings. We may be sometimes in such a state as Paul and his company