B00698:37
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 are not said to be ill, because we know ill, but because ⟨p. 37⟩we will and consent to ill; it is the will that makes up the bargain, sin were not sin else. God hath given us the custody of our own souls, and as long as we keep the keys faithfully, and betray not our souls to Satan, so long we possess our own souls, and our comfort: but when he suggests; do this, or speak this, and we consent; he takes full and free possession of us, as much as in us lies; and God in judgment saith Amen to it. God saith take him Satan: since he will not have my Spirit to rule him, it is fit he should have a worse. The more willingness, the more sinfulness, and the less defence; and Gods justice ⟨p. 38⟩cannot better be satisfied than by punishing them mos• against their wills, who sinned most with their will. The clearer the light is, and the more advantages it hath the more we sin.
We are not said to be ill, because we know ill, but because ⟨p. 37⟩we will and consent to ill; it is the will that makes up the bargain, sin were not sinne else. God hath given us the custody of our owne soules, and as long as wee keepe the keyes faithfully, and betray not our soules to Sathan, so long wee possesse our owne soules, and our comfort: but when hee suggests; doe this, or speake this, and wee consent; hee takes full and free possession of us, as much as in us lies; and God in judgment saith Amen to it. God saith take him Sathan: since hee will not have my Spirit to rule him, it is fit hee should have a worse. The more willingnesse, the more sinfulnesse, and the lesse defence; and Gods justice ⟨p. 38⟩cannot better bee satisfied than by punishing thē mos• against their wils, who sinned most with their will. The clearer the light is, and the more advantages it hath the more we sinne.