B00698:42
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.
It is a dangerous grieving of the Spirit, when instead of drawing our selves to the spirit, we will labour to draw the spirit to us, and study the Scriptures, to countenance us in some corrupt course; and labour to make God of our mind, that we may go on with the greater liberty. When men get to themselves teachers after their own ••sts, as many do (especially if they be in place) Ahab •hall not want his 400 false Prophets. When men cut •he rule and standard to fit themselves, and not fit ⟨p. 48⟩themselves to it. You have some that are resolved wha• to do, and yet will be asking counsel, and if they hav• an answer to their minde• then they rest; if not, the• their answer is: This is you• judgement, but others a•• of a contrary opinion: an• thus they labour to mak• the Spirit of God in his M• nisters to serve their turn so did the Jews in Jerem••• time.1
It is a dangerous grieving of the Spirit, when instead of drawing our selves to the spirit, we will labour to draw the spirit to us, and study the Scriptures, to countenance us in some corrupt course; and labour to make God of our minde, that wee may goe on with the greater libertie. When men get to themselves teachers after their owne ••sts, as many doe (especial•y if they be in place) Ahab •hall not want his 400 false Prophets. When men cut •he rule and standard to fit •hemselves, and not fit