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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.
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?
Benefits are bonds, and the greater favour, the stronger obligation; now what greater favour is there, then for the Spirit to renew us according to ⟨p. 238⟩the Image of God our glorious Saviour: who carried the Image of Satan before? And by this to appropriate us unto GOD, to be laid up in his treasure, as carrying his stamp, and by this to be separated from the vile condition of the world; although we carry in us the seeds of the same corruption that the worst doth, differing nothing from them but in GODS free grace and the fruits of it. For God to esteem so of us, that have no worthiness of our own, but altogether persons not worthy to be beloved: as to make our unworthiness a foil, to set out the freeness of his love; in making us worthy, ⟨p. 239⟩whom he found not so. For the Spirit by sealing of us to secure us in the midst of all spiritual dangers: and to hide us as this secret ones, that that evil one should not touch us to hurt us. These, as they are favours of an high nature, the more care they require to walk worthy of them. We cannot but forget our selves, before we yield to any thing against that dignity the Spirit hath sealed us to.