B00698:185
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
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1Secondly, full redemption is not yet, What need I bring Scripture to prove it? It is a point that every mans experience teacheth. Alas, let our bodies speake• we are not free from sickness and diseases: nay, what is our life but a going ⟨p. 194⟩to corruption? the sentence is passed upon us, earth returneth to earth; till death we are going to death, so besides sickness and weakness here, we must dye, and after death be subject to corruption. The Apostle in this respect calleth our body, a vile body. As for our souls, though they be freed from the guilt and damnation of sin, yet there are remainders of corruption that breed fear and terror; and though they be freed from the rule of Satan, yet not from his molestation and vexations by temptations. In a word, our whole state and condition in this world, is a state and condition of misery, we are followed with many ⟨p. 195⟩afflictions, so that there is not yet perfect redemption, whether we look to body, soul, or state; the body being subject to diseases, the soul to infirmities, the state to misery.
1Secondly, full redemption is not yet, What need I bring Scripture to prove it? It is a point that every mans experience teacheth. Alas, let our bodies speake• wee are not free from sicknesse and diseases: nay, what is our life but a going ⟨p. 194⟩to corruption? the sentence is passed upon us, earth returneth to earth; till death wee are going to death, so besides sicknesse and weakenesse here, we must dye, and after death bee subject to corruption. The Apostle in this respect calleth our body, a vile body. As for our soules, though they bee freed from the guilt and damnation of sinne, yet there are remainders of corruption that breed feare and terrour; and though they be freed from the rule of Sathan, yet not from his molestation and vexations by temptations. In a word, our whole state and condition in this world, is a state and condition of misery, wee are followed with many ⟨p. 195⟩