B00698:163
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 cometh after deep ⟨p. 173⟩humiliation, and abasement: though we know our selves to be the children of God in some such measure, as we would not change our condition for all the world; yet we would have more evidence, we would have further manifestation of Gods countenance towards us, we are not satisfied, but wait: After we have long fasted, and our hearts melted, & softened, then God poureth water upon the dry wilderness, and then it comes to pass, through his goodness and mercy, that he comforts, and satisfies the desires of the hungry soul; GOD will not suffer the spirit of his children to fail.
It commeth after deepe ⟨p. 173⟩humiliation, and abasement: though wee know our selves to bee the children of God in some such measure, as we would not change our condition for all the world; yet we would have more evidence, wee would have further manifestation of Gods countenance towards us, we are not satisfied, but waite: After wee have long fasted, and our hearts melted, & softened, then God powreth water upon the dry wildernesse, and then it comes to passe, through his goodnesse and mercy, that hee comforts, and satisfies the desires of the hungry soule; GOD will not suffer the spirit of his children to faile.
3 Likewise after self-denial in that which is pleasing to us, it is made up with inward comfort: if this self-denial be from a desire of nearer communion with GOD, God will not fail them in what they desire. There are wretches in the world that will deny their sinful nature nothing, if they have a disposition to pride, they will be proud; if they have a lust to be rich, to live in pleasures, to follow the vanities of the times, they will do so, they will not say nay to corrupt nature in any thing: will God vouchsafe to give any true joy or comfort of spirit to such ones? No: those that let loose their natures without ⟨p. 175⟩