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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.
1Again the holy Spirit is grieved, when ye have a corrupt judgement of ⟨p. 56⟩things, not weighing them in the right balance, nor value them according to their worth. When we esteem any knowledge rather than divine knowledge, any truths but truths that concern Christ, when men look upon grace as contemptible, and prefer other things above it, make a tush at holiness, give us (say they) gifts and parts. Alas, what are all gifts and parts, without a gracious heart? Have not the devils greater parts then any man? Are they not called Daemones, from the largeness of their understanding? If parts and gifts were best, the devils were better than we. What an indignity is this to the holy Spirit, to think it ⟨p. 57⟩better to be accounted witty, and politic, then to be holy, and gracious?
1Againe the holy Spirit is grieved, when yee have a corrupt judgement of ⟨p. 56⟩things, not weighing them in the right ballance, nor value them according to their worth. When wee esteeme any knowledge rather than divine knowledge, any truths but truths that concerne Christ, when men looke upon grace as contemptible, and prefer other things above it, make a tush at holinesse, give us (say they) gifts and parts. Alas, what are all gifts and parts, without a gracious heart? Have not the divels greater parts then any man? Are they not called Daemones, from the largenesse of their understanding? If parts and gifts were best, the divels were better than wee. What an indignity is this to the holy Spirit, to thinke it ⟨p. 57⟩better to be accounted witty, and politicke, then to be holy, and gracious?
- 1By false judgement of things.