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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.
In this threefold testimony the order is this; blood begets water: satisfaction by blood procures the Spirit ⟨p. 164⟩from God, as a witness of Gods love; and by feeling the power of blood and water, we come to have the Spirit witnessing, and sealing our adoption unto us to establish us in the state of grace against storms of temptation to the contrary. The Spirit persuadeth to look unto blood, convinceth the heart of the efficacy of it, and then quieteth the soul, which giveth it self up to Christ wholly, and to whole Christ: and thence feels his heart established against carnal reason, so as he can and doth oppose Christs blood to all the guilt that doth arise. And this witness of the Spirit comforting the soul is the most ⟨p. 165⟩familiar, and affects most.
In this threefold testimony the order is this; bloud begets water: satisfaction by bloud procures the Spirit ⟨p. 164⟩from God, as a witnesse of Gods love; and by feeling the power of bloud and water, we come to have the Spirit witnessing, and sealing our adoption unto us to establish us in the state of grace against stormes of temptation to the contrary. The Spirit petiwadeth to looke unto bloud, convinceth the heart of the efficacie of it, and then quieteth the soule, which giveth it selfe up to Christ wholly, and to whole Christ: and thence feeles his heart established against carnall reason, so as hee can and doth oppose Christs bloud to all the guilt that doth arise. And this witnesse of the Spirit comforting the soule is the most ⟨p. 165⟩familiar, and affects most.
If we feel it not (as oft we do not) then rise upward from want of this joy of spirit to water, and see what work we find of the spirit in cleansing our souls, and if we find these waters not to run so clearly as to discern our condition in them; then go to the witness of blood, and let us bathe our souls in it, and then we shall find peace in free grace procured by blood: for oft times a Christian is driven to that pass, that nothing can comfort him, within, or without him, in heaven or earth, but the free and infinite mercy of GOD, in the blood of Christ, whereon the soul relieth when it feels no