B00698:162
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.
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, 2or else no joy nor peace will bee unto ⟨p. 172⟩us. If wee cannot bring the Word and our hearts together, it is not Gods, but Sathans sealing, a groundlesse presumption, and it will end in despaire: as Christ came by water and bloud, so doth this testimony, it commeth after the other two. First the heart is carried to bloud, and from thence hath quiet: then followeth water, and our nature is washed, and changed, and then commeth this of the Spirit; though it bee not grounded on their testimony, but is above theirs, yet they goe before. Where wee thus finde the worke, wee may know it to bee right by the order of it.