B00698:231
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.
We shall lye open to Satan, if he be let loose to winnow our Faith: for if our state come to be questioned, we have nothing to allege but the truth of our graces: and if we have not used the Spirit well, we shall not have power to allege them, nor to look upon any grace wrought in us, but upon those lusts and sins whereby we have grieved the Spirit; they will be set in order before us, and so stare us in the face, that we cannot ⟨p. 236⟩but fix our thoughts upon them. And Satan will not lose such an advantage, but will tempt us to call the work of grace in question: which though it be a true work, yet for want of light of the Spirit to discern it, we cannot see it to our comfort. Whereas if the Spirit would witness unto us the truth of our state, and the sincerity of our graces, we shall be able to hold our own, and those temptations will vanish.
We shall lye open to Sathan, if hee be let loose to winnow our Faith: for if our state come to bee questioned, wee have nothing to alledge but the truth of our graces: and if wee have not used the Spirit well, we shall not have power to alledge them, nor to looke upon any grace wrought in us, but upon those lusts and sinnes whereby wee have grieved the Spirit; they will bee set in order before us, and so stare us in the face, that wee cannot ⟨p. 236⟩but fixe our thoughts upon them. And Sathan will not lose such an advantage, but will tempt us to call the worke of grace in question: which though it bee a true worke, yet for want of light of the Spirit to discerne it, wee cannot see it to our comfort. Whereas if the Spirit would witnesse unto us the truth of our state, and the sincerity of our graces, wee shall bee able to hold our owne, and those temptations will vanish.
1For those that the holy Spirit hath set a clearer and stronger stamp upon, that do not question their condition, they of all others should not grieve the Spirit.