B00698:201
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.
Answer. It is the office of the Spirit, as to work Faith and other graces, so to reveal them to us: every grace of GOD is a light of it self, coming from the Father of lights: and it is the property of light, not only to discover other things, but it self too; and it is the office ⟨p. 206⟩of the Spirit to give further light to this light by shining upon his own grace in us: an excellent place for this is the 1 Cor. 2.12. We have received the Spirit that is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every thing be confirmed: one witnesses is the Spirit of man which knows the things that are in man; the other witnesses is the Spirit of God, witnessing to our spirits that we are the children of God. Here is light added to light, witness added to witness, the greater witness of the Spirit to the less of our Spirits: the Apostle joins them both together,1 My conscience ⟨p. 207⟩bears me witness through the holy Ghost.
Answer. It is the office of the Spirit, as to worke Faith and other graces, so to reveale them to us: every grace of GOD is a light of it selfe, comming from the Father of lights: and it is the property of light, not onely to discover other things, but it selfe too; and it is the office ⟨p. 206⟩of the Spirit to give further light to this light by shining upon his owne grace in us: an excellent place for this is the 1 Cor. 2.12. Wee have received the Spirit that is of God, that wee might know the things that are freely given to us of God, in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every thing bee confirmed: one witnesses is the Spirit of man which knowes the things that are in man; the other witnesses is the Spirit of God, witnessing to our spirits that we are the children of God. Here is light added to light, witnesse added to witnesse, the greater witnesse of the Spirit to the lesse of our Spirits: the Apostle joynes them both together,