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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.
Faith and love, and these graces, they never fail finally; therefore when the Scripture speaks of Faith, it speaks of salvation by it for the present: as if a man should be in heaven presently so soon as he believes. We are saved by faith, say the Scriptures: we are not yet saved; but the meaning is, we are▪ set by faith into a state of salvation. Being put into Christ by Faith, we are risen with Christ, and sit in heavenly places with him. 1Faith makes the things to come, present: and Faith believes, that neither things present, nor things to come,2 shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ. So that our assurance is not only ⟨p. 217⟩for the present, but for the time to come. We are sealed to the day of Redemption, and who can reverse Gods seal, or Gods act & deed? Grace is the earnest penny of glory: God hath made a covenant, and given earnest, he will not lose it, the earnest is never taken away, but filled up; if we be assured of grace for the present, we may be sure it shall be made up full in glory hereafter. If the spirit of Christ be in us, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, will raise us up likewise,3 and not leave us until we be in full redemption, we shall walk, filled with his image.4
Faith and love, and these graces, they never faile finally; therefore when the Scripture speakes of Faith, it speakes of salvation by it for the present: as if a man should bee in heaven presently so soone as hee beleeves. Wee are saved by faith, say the Scriptures: we are not yet saved; but the meaning is, wee are▪ set by faith into a state of salvation. Being put into Christ by Faith, we are risen with Christ, and sit in heavenly places with him. 1Faith makes the things to come, present: and Faith beleeves, that neither things present, nor things to come,