B00698:219
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.
Partly to comfort us:1 for Faith is effectual to work that comfort that the thing present would do in some measure. What comfort would the soul have, if it should see heaven open, and it self entering into it, if redemption were at hand? The same Faith works in some measure. What is more sure then the thing it self? What more comfortable then Faith in it?
Partly to comfort us:1 for Faith is effectuall to worke that comfort that the thing present would doe in some measure. What comfort would the soule have, if it should see heaven open, and it selfe entring into it, if redēption were at hand? The same Faith workes in some measure. What is more sure then the thing it self? What more comfortable then Faith in it?
- 12 For our comfort.
When the Israelites were in the wilderness going to Canaan, they had many promises that they should come to Canaan, and many extraordinary helps to lead them thither; the pillar, and cloud, and Angel: ⟨p. 224⟩and God out of indulgence condescending to their weakness, gave them some grapes of Canaan: he put it into the mind of the spies to bring of the fruits. So God give us some work of his blessed Spirit, whereby he would have us assured, and sealed to the day of redemption.
When the Israelites were in the wildernesse going to Canaan, they had many promises that they should come to Canaan, and many extraordinary helpes to leade them thither; the pillar, and cloud, and Angell: ⟨p. 224⟩