B00698:232
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 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.
1For those that the holy Spirit hath set a clearer and stronger stampe upon, that doe not question their condition, they of all others should not grieve the Spirit.
- 12 Those that are sealed in a higher degree.
A Spirit of ingenuity will •inder them, and stir up […] shame in them to requite so ill, such a friend. Nothing so ingenuous as grace: what is commendable in nature, is in greater perfection in grace. How doth the conscience of unkindness to a friend that hath deserved well of us, trouble our spirits, that we know not with what face to look upon him? And will not unkindness to the Spirit make us ashamed to lift up our face to heaven?
A Spirit of ingenuity will •inder them, and stirre up 〈…〉 shame in them to requite so ill, such a friend. Nothing so ingenuous as grace: what is commendable in nature, is in greater perfection in grace. How doth the conscience of unkindenesse to a friend that hath deserved well of us, trouble our spirits, that wee know not with what face to looke upon him? And will not unkindenesse to the Spirit make us ashamed to lift up our face to heaven?