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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, those sins wherein there is plotting, and contriving, exceedingly grieve the Spirit: because they are done in cold blood. David deeply wounded his conscience, and grieved the Spirit, in plotting the death of Uriah, which was the diminution of the credit of David: that the Scripture saith, he was good in all things, except in the matter of Uriah: why? because therein he grieved the Spirit most, in plotting, and contriving the cruel murder of so good a man. How can they think they have the Spirit of God, that plot, and undermine mens estates, to have ⟨p. 58⟩their wills in unjust courses; or if they have the spirit, can this be without grieving it; for the Spirit will perpetually suggest the contrary.
1Again, those sins wherein there is plotting, and contriving, exceedingly grieve the Spirit: because they are done in cold bloud. David deeply wounded his conscience, and grieved the Spirit, in plotting the death of Vriah, which was the diminution of the credit of David: that the Scripture saith, he was good in all things, except in the matter of Vriah: why? because therein he grieved the Spirit most, in plotting, and contriving the cruell murther of so good a man. How can they thinke they have the Spirit of God, that plot, and undermine mens estates, to have ⟨p. 58⟩their wils in unjust courses; or if they have the spirit, can this be without grieving it; for the Spirit will perpetually suggest the contrary.
- 1When we plot and contrive sin, the Spirit is grieved.When we plot and contrive sinne, the Spirit is grieved.
1Again, we grieve the holy Spirit, when we commit such sins, as we might avoid, such sins as we have some helps against, and least provocation unto. It is a general rule, Quanto major facilitas, &c. The more the facility of not sinning, the greater the sin. Therefore when we are tempted to sin, consider what conscience saith: I have been an hearer of the word, what hath the Spirit of God revealed and discovered unto me? He hath showed that this is a sin: whom do I grieve, by the commission of it? The