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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.
1For those that have been sealed by the Spirit, and yet not so fully, as to silence all doubts, about their estate: those should out of that beginning of comfort which they feel, study to be pliable to the Spirit, for further increase. The Spirit sealeth by degrees: as our care of pleasing the Spirit increaseth, ⟨p. 234⟩so our comfort increaseth; our light will increase as the morning light unto the perfect day. Yielding to the Spirit in one holy motion, will cause him to lead us to another, and so on forwards until we be more deeply acquainted with the whole counsel of God concerning our salvation: otherwise if we give way to any contrary lust▪ darkness will grow upon our Spirits unawares, and we shall be left in an unsettled condition, as those that travail in the twilight, that cannot perfectly find out their way. We shall be on and off, not daring to yield wholly to our lusts, because of a work of grace begun: nor yield ⟨p. 235⟩wholly to the Spirit, because we have let some unruly affection get too much strength in us, and so our spirits are without comfort, and our profession without glory.
1For those that have beene sealed by the Spirit, and yet not so fully, as to silence all doubts, about their estate: those should out of that beginning of comfort which they feele, study to bee pliable to the Spirit, for further increase. The Spirit sealeth by degrees: as our care of pleasing the Spirit increaseth, ⟨p. 234⟩so our comfort increaseth; our light will increase as the morning light unto the perfect day. Yeelding to the Spirit in one holy motion, will cause him to leade us to another, and so on forwards untill wee bee more deepely acquainted with the whole counsell of God concerning our salvation: otherwise if wee give way to any contrary lust▪ darkenesse will grow upon our Spirits unawares, and we shall be left in an unsetled condition, as those that travaile in the twilight, that cannot perfectly finde out their way. Wee shall be on and off, not daring to yeeld wholly to our lusts, because of a worke of grace begun: nor yeeld