B00698:167
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.
1 This spiritual comfort enlargeth our hearts to a desire after an high prizing the ordinances; so far is it from taking us off from a dependence upon them. ⟨p. 178⟩In the Word and other means it found comfort from GOD, therefore delights to be meeting GOD still in his own ways. The eye of the soul is strengthened to see further into truths, and is enabled more spiritually to understand the things it knew before: as in many of the same truths that wise men understand, they understood them when they were young, as when they were old, but then more clearly. So all truths are more clearly known by this; the Spirit by which we are sealed, is the Spirit of illumination, not that it reveals any thing different from the Word, but giveth a more large understanding, and inward knowledge ⟨p. 179⟩of the same truths as were known before.
1 This spirituall comfort inlargeth our hearts to a desire after an high prizing the ordinances; so farre is it from taking us off from a dependance upon them. ⟨p. 178⟩In the Word and other meanes it found comfort from GOD, therefore delights to be meeting GOD still in his owne wayes. The eye of the soule is strengthened to see further into truths, and is inabled more spiritually to understand the things it knew before: as in many of the same truths that wise men understand, they understood them when they were young, as when they were old, but then more clearely. So all truths are more clearely knowne by this; the Spirit by which wee are sealed, is the Spirit of illumination, not that it reveales any thing different from the Word, but giveth a more large understanding, and inward knowledge