B00698:222
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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Then am I sealed, when I do not only believe, but by a reflecting act of the soul, know I do believe: ⟨p. 225⟩and this reflection though it be by Reason, yet it is by Reason enabled by the Spirit; our spirits by the Spirit only can discern of spiritual acts: it is not for us to know things above nature, without a cause above nature. None can know the meaning of our broken desires, so as to help us in our infirmities, but that Spirit that stirred up those desires. Again, none knows the grievances of our spirits, but our own spirits, and the Spirit of God, who knows all the turnings and corners of the soul.
Then am I sealed, when I doe not onely beleeve, but by a reflecting act of the soule, know I doe beleeve: ⟨p. 225⟩and this reflection though it be by Reason, yet it is by Reason inabled by the Spirit; our spirits by the Spirit onely can discerne of spirituall acts: it is not for us to know things above nature, without a cause above nature. None can know the meaning of our broken desires, so as to helpe us in our infirmities, but that Spirit that stirred up those desires. Againe, none knowes the grievances of our spirits, but our owne spirits, and the Spirit of God, who knowes all the turnings and corners of the soule.
Who can mortify those strong corruptions, that would hinder us in the way to heaven, but the Spirit ⟨p. 226⟩clothing our spirit with power from above? who purifieth the conscience, but he that is above conscience? Who can raise our spirits above all temptations & troubles, but that Spirit of power that is above all?
Who can mortifie those strong corruptions, that would hinder us in the way to heaven, but the Spirit ⟨p. 226⟩