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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.
That you may know the voice of the Spirit of God from the carnal confidence of our own spirits, inquire,
That you may know the voyce of the Spirit of God from the carnal confidence of our owne spirits, inquire,
1 What went before. 2 What accompanieth it. 3 What followeth after this ravishing joy.
11 The Word must go before it, in being assented unto by faith, and submitted unto by answerable obedience. In whom after you believed the word of promise, you were sealed. So that if there be not first a believing of the word of promise, there is no sealing, The God of peace given you joy In believing. There must be a believing, a walking according to Rule, 2or else no joy nor peace will be unto ⟨p. 172⟩us. If we cannot bring the Word and our hearts together, it is not Gods, but Satan's sealing, a groundless presumption, and it will end in despair: as Christ came by water and blood, so doth this testimony, it cometh after the other two. First the heart is carried to blood, and from thence hath quiet: then followeth water, and our nature is washed, and changed, and then cometh this of the Spirit; though it be not grounded on their testimony, but is above theirs, yet they go before. Where we thus find the work, we may know it to be right by the order of it.
11 The Word must goe before it, in being assented unto by faith, and submitted unto by answerable obedience. In whom after you beleeved the word of promise, you were sealed. So that if there be not first a beleeving of the word of promise, there is no sealing, The God of peace given you joy In beleeving. There must be a beleeving, a walking according to Rule,