B00698:227
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.
The fourth conclusion is,1 that the sealing of the spirit unto salvation, should be a strong prevailing argument not to grieve the Spirit, that is, not to sin: for sin only grieves the Spirit.2 The grace of God (saith Paul to Titus) that bringeth salvation, Christ appeared: and what is Christ but grace? Christ appeared, and the ⟨p. 229⟩free favour of GOD in Christ, whereby we are assured of salvation: which teacheth us, what to do? to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously▪ and godly in this present world. Even the consideration of the benefits of Christ, that are past, such as came with Christs first coming, but that is not all, Verse 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. The second coming of Christ enforceth likewise the same care of holin flee.3 Our conversation is in heaven, and not as theirs (spoken of in the former Verse) whose end is damnation, whose belly is ⟨p. 230⟩their GOD, who mind earthly things: no, we mind heavenly things, and these heavenly desires from whence sprung they, but from the certain expectation of our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile bodies, &c. that is, shall redeem us fully even our bodies as well as our souls.
The fourth conclusion is,1 that the sealing of the spirit unto salvation, should bee a strong prevailing argument not to grieve the Spirit, that is, not to sinne: for sinne onely grieves the Spirit.2 The grace of God (saith Paul to Titus) that bringeth salvation, Christ appeared: and what is Christ but grace? Christ appeared, and the ⟨p. 229⟩