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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.
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 ⟨p. 166⟩comfort, nor joy, of the Spirit, nor sees no work of sanctification: then it must rest on the satisfaction wrought by the blood of Christ; when the soul can go to God, and say, If we confess out sins, thou art just to forgive them, and the blood of Christ shall cleanse us from all sin. Therefore though I feel not inward peace, nor the work of the Spirit, yet I will cast my self upon thy mercy in Christ. Hereupon we shall in Gods time come to have the witness of water and the Spirit more evidently made clear unto us.
If wee feele it not (as oft we do not) then rise upward from want of this joy of spirit to water, and see what worke we finde of the spirit in clensing our soules, and if wee finde these waters not to runne so clearely as to discerne our condition in them; then goe to the witnesse of bloud, and let us bathe our soules in it, and then we shall finde peace in free grace procured by bloud: for oft times a Christian is driven to that passe, that nothing can comfort him, within, or without him, in heaven or earth, but the free and infinite mercy of GOD, in the bloud of Christ, whereon the soule relyeth when it feeles no ⟨p. 166⟩comfort, nor joy, of the Spirit, nor sees no worke of sanctification: then it must rest on the satisfaction wrought by the bloud of Christ; when the soule can goe to God, and say, If wee confesse out sinnes, thou art just to forgive them, and the bloud of Christ shall cleanse us from all sinne. Therefore though I feele not inward peace, nor the worke of the Spirit, yet I will cast my selfe upon thy mercy in Christ. Hereupon we shall in Gods time come to have the witnesse of water and the Spirit more evidently made cleare unto us.