B00698:211
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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1Answer. We pray for a clearer evidence of what we have: secondly, as the end is ordained, so the means must be used: God doth and will pardon sin, and therefore we must pray ⟨p. 219⟩for pardon, as a means ordained. Thirdly, prayer doth not prejudice the certainty of a thing: Christ prayeth for that he was most sure of, John 17. I pray for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine.
1Answer. Wee pray for a clearer evidence of what wee have: secondly, as the end is ordained, so the meanes must be used: God doth and will pardon sinne, and therefore we must pray ⟨p. 219⟩for pardon, as a meanes ordained. Thirdly, prayer doth not prejudice the certainty of a thing: Christ prayeth for that hee was most sure of, Iohn 17. I pray for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine.
- 1Why we pray for forgiveness of sins.Why wee pray for forgivenesse of sinnes.
Pregnant for the proof of this point,1 is that of Peter, We are begotten again to a lively hope, a hope of that life which maketh lively. Oh but we are weak! true, but we are kept by the power of GOD: an inheritance is not only kept for us, but we are kept for it.