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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.
1Men grieve the Spirit, by cavilling against the truth. The heathen man could say, It is an ill custom to be cavilling against Religion, whether in good earnest, or in jest: yet we have a sect, a generation of men, that are of all religions, of no religion, men of a contradictory spirit, that always take the opposite part; that cavil at the truth to show their parts: this is ⟨p. 60⟩too ordinary among the wits of the world.
1Men grieve the Spirit, by cavelling against the truth. The heathen mā could say, It is an ill custome to be cavelling against Religion, whether in good earnest, or in jest: yet wee have a sect, a generation of men, that are of all religions, of no religion, men of a contradictory spirit, that alwayes take the opposite part; that cavell at the truth to shew their parts: this is ⟨p. 60⟩too ordinary among the wits of the world.
- 1By cavilling against the truth.By caveling against the truth.
1This grieves the holy Spirit also, when men take the office of the Spirit from him, that is, when we will do things in our own strength, and by our own light, as if we were gods to our selves. Man naturally affects a kind of divinity (it was the fault of Adam) and till God drive him out of himself by his Spirit, and by afflictions, he sets much by his own parts, and wit, and thereupon neglects prayer, and dependence on God, as if the Spirit had nothing to do with his regiment. When men set upon actions in the strength of natural parts, perhaps they may go on in their course ⟨p. 61⟩