B00698:243
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
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2 If assurance be in a lesser degree,1 yet yield not to temptations and carnal reasonings: if our evidences be not so fair, yet we will not part with our inheritance. Coins, as old groats, that have little of the stamp left, yet are currant. We lose our comfort many times, because we yield so easily, because we have not such a strong and clear seal of salvation as we would, to be borne down that we have none at all, is a great weakness: exercise therefore the little ⟨p. 249⟩faith thou hast in striving against such objections, and it will be a means to preserve the seal of the Spirit.
2 If assurance be in a lesser degree,1 yet yeeld not to temptations and carnall reasonings: if our evidences be not so faire, yet we will not part with our inheritance. Coynes, as old groates, that have little of the stamp left, yet are currant. We lose our cōfort many times, because wee yeeld so easily, because wee have not such a strong and cleare seale of salvation as wee would, to bee borne downe that we have none at all, is a great weakenesse: exercise therefore the little ⟨p. 249⟩faith thou hast in striving against such objections, and it will bee a meanes to preserve the seale of the Spirit.
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3 Because this sealing is gradually,1 we should pray as Paul,