B00698:235
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.
Nature helped with ordinary education, moveth every man to carry himself answerable to his condition: a Magistrate as a Magistrate, a Subject as a Subject, a Child as a Child; and we think it ⟨p. 240⟩disgraceful to do otherwise: and shall that which is disgraceful to nature, not be much more disgraceful to nature renewed, and advanced by the Spirit? And indeed as we should not, so we cannot grieve the Spirit so far forth as we are renewed.1 Our new nature will not suffer us to dissemble, to be worldly, to be carnal, as the world is, we cannot but study holiness, we cannot but be for GOD and his truth, we cannot but express what we are, and whose we are.
Nature helped with ordinary education, moveth every man to carry himselfe answerable to his condition: a Magistrate as a Magistrate, a Subject as a Subject, a Childe as a Childe; and wee thinke it ⟨p. 240⟩disgracefull to doe otherwise: and shall that which is disgracefull to nature, not be much more disgracefull to nature renewed, and advanced by the Spirit? And indeed as wee should not, so wee cannot grieve the Spirit so farre forth as wee are renewed.1 Our new nature will not suffer us to dissemble, to be worldly, to bee carnall, as the world is, wee cannot but study holinesse, wee cannot but be for GOD and his truth, wee cannot but expresse what we are, and whose wee are.