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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.
1Upon divers respects some sin may grieve more or less than another. As the holy Ghost is a Spirit, so spiritual sins grieve most; as pride, envy; imprinting upon the soul as it were, a character of the contrary ill spirit. Carnal sins, whereby the soul is drowned in delight of the body, may more grieve the spirit in another respect; as defiling his Temple, and as taking away so much of the soul; love and delight, carry the soul with them, and the more deeply such sins enter into the creature, besides the defilement, the less strength it hath to spiritual ⟨p. 44⟩duties: grace is seated in the powers of nature, now carnal sins disable nature: and so sets us in a greater distance from grace, as taking away the heart, Hos. 4. Hereupon the Apostle sets being filled with wine, contrary to being filled with the Spirit. 2And hence it is the Apostle forbids, in the former words, unclean communication: the holy Spirit is a Spirit of truth, hates hypocrites, being painted sepulchres; but as a spirit of purity, hates soul livers, and soul-mouthed speakers, as open sepulchres. They cannot therefore but much grieve the spirit, that feed corrupt lusts, and study to give contentment, and pay tribute, to the ⟨p. 45⟩flesh; to which they owe no service and are no debtors: and by sowing to the flesh from which we can reap nothing but corruption.3 When our thoughts are exercised to content the outward man, to contrive for the things of the world only; this is to pay tribute of the strength and vigour of our affections to the utter enemy of Gods Spirit, and our own souls: when our thoughts run deeply into earthly things, we become one with them.
1Vpon divers respects some sinne may grieve more or lesse than another. As the holy Ghost is a Spirit, so spirituall sinnes grieve most; as pride, envy; imprinting upon the soule as it were, a character of the contrary ill spirit. Carnall sinnes, whereby the soule is drowned in delight of the body, may more grieve the spirit in another respect; as defiling his Temple, and as taking away so much of the soule; love and delight, carry the soule with them, and the more deeply such sinnes enter into the creature, besides the defilement, the lesse strength it hath to spirituall