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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
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.
It pleaseth God thus to keep every degree and act of sealing in his own hand, to keep us in a perpetual dependence upon him, and to awe us, that we should not grieve the Spirit of grace, and cause him to suspend either act of grace or comfort.
It pleaseth God thus to keepe every degree and act of sealing in his owne hand, to keep us in a perpetuall dependance upon him, and to awe us, that wee should not grieve the Spirit of grace, and cause him to suspend either act of grace or comfort.
Joy and strong comfort come from a superadded seal of the Spirit. The works of the Spirit are of a double kind: either in us by imprinting sanctifying ⟨p. 157⟩grace, or upon us, by shining upon our souls in sweet feelings of joy: what the Spirit worketh in us is more constant, as a new nature which is always like it self, and worketh uniformly: but comfort and joy are of the nature of such privileges as God vouchsafeth at one time, and not another, to some, and not to others.
Ioy and strong comfort come from a superadded seale of the Spirit. The works of the Spirit are of a double kinde: either in us by imprinting sanctifying ⟨p. 157⟩grace, or upon us, by shining upon our soules in sweet feelings of joy: what the Spirit worketh in us is more constant, as a new nature which is alwayes like it selfe, and worketh uniformely: but comfort and joy are of the nature of such priviledges as God vouchsafeth at one time, and not another, to some, and not to others.
This degree of sealing in regard of joy hath its degrees likewise : sometimes it is so clear and strong, that the soul questioneth not its state in grace ever after, but passeth on in a triumphant manner to that glory it looks for. Sometimes after this sealing, there may be interrupting