B00698:220
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.
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⟩and God out of indulgence condescending to their weaknesse, gave them some grapes of Canaan: he put it into the minde of the spies to bring of the fruits. So God give us some work of his blessed Spirit, whereby hee would have us assured, and sealed to the day of redemption.
The third conclusion is this,1 that the spirit doth seal us. This cannot be otherwise, for who can establish us in the love of God, but he that knows the mind of God towards us; and who knows the mind of God, but the spirit of God?
The third conclusion is this,1 that the spirit doth seale us. This cannot bee otherwise, for who can establish us in the love of God, but he that knowes the minde of God towards us; and who knowes the minde of God, but the spirit of God?
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