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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.
So in a Christian the most inward part the spirit is, as it were the holy of holies,1 where incense is offered to God continually. What a mercy is this that he that hath the heaven of heavens to dwell in, will make a dungeon to be a temple; a prison to be a paradise; yea an hell to be an heaven? Next to the love of Christ in taking our nature, and dwelling in it; we may wonder at the love of the holy Ghost, that will take up his residence in such defiled souls.
So in a Christian the most inward part the spirit is, as it were the holy of holies,1 where incense is offered to God continually. What a mercy is this that hee that hath the heaven of heavens to dwell in, will make a dungeon to bee a temple; a prison to be a paradise; yea an hell to bee an heaven? Next to the love of Christ in taking our nature, and dwelling in it; we may wonder at the love of the holy Ghost, that will take up his residence in such defiled soules.
- 1The holy Ghost dwells not in us as in ordinary houses, but as Temples. The holy spirit makes all holy, where ever he comes.The holy Ghost dwels not in us as in ordinary houses, but as Temples. The holy spirit makes all holy, where ever he comes.
The second thing presupposed, ⟨p. 13⟩is that the holy Spirit being in us after he hath prepared us for an house for himself to dwell in,1 and to take up his rest and delight in, he doth also become unto us a Counsellor in all our doubts, a Comforter in all distresses, a Solicitor to all duty, a guide in the whole course of our life, until we dwell with him for ever in heaven: unto which his dwelling here in us doth tend: he goeth before us as Christ did in the pillar of the cloud and fire before the Israelites into Canaan: being a defence by day, and a direction by night. When we sin,