B00698:217
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.
Ob. But the time is long between us and salvation, and many dangers may fall out?
Ob. But the time is long betweene us and salvation, and many dangers may fall out?
Answ. Be it so that the time is long, yet we are kept unto salvation, even until the day of Redemption: for the Spirit by virtue of the Covenant, puts the fear of GOD into our hearts, that we shall never depart from him: GOD doth not promise what we shall do of ourselves, but what he will do in us, and ⟨p. 221⟩by us. Thus the holy Ghost putteth a shield into our hands to ward off all objections; and helps us to subdue the reasonings that are apt to rise within us against this blessed hope. So that this happy condition is not only sure to us, but God hath assured us of it.1 Gods gracious indulgence is such, he sees here we go through a wilderness, and are molested every way, therefore he would have us assured of a blessed condition to come. So good is God, he doth not only find out a glorious way of Redemption by the blood of his Son▪ God-Man, but he acquaints us with ⟨p. 222⟩it in the days of our pilgrimage.2 Partly, that we may glorify him, that he may have the praise before hand of what good he intends us: for assurance of that blessed condition will stir up our spirits to bless God. What the thing it self would work, Faith works the same in some measure. Therefore Saint Peter, 1 Pet. 1. Blessed be God (saith he) who hath begotten us again to a lively hope of an inheritance immortal, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in the heavens. Why doth he bless God before we have it? because we are as sure of it as if we had it: what is revealed before hand, is praised for before hand. GOD