B00698:57
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.
1We likewise grieve the spirit of others, by sharp censures: and the greater our authority is, the deeper is the grief, a censure inflicteth: many weak spirits cannot enjoy quiet, while ⟨p. 66⟩they are exercised with such sharpness. They think themselves excommunicated out of the hearts of those, in whose good liking they desire to dwell.
1Wee likewise grieve the spirit of others, by sharpe censures: and the greater our authority is, the deeper is the griefe, a censure inflicteth: many weake spirits cannot enjoy quiet, while ⟨p. 66⟩they are exercised with such sharpenesse. They thinke themselves excommunicated out of the hearts of those, in whose good liking they desire to dwell.
- 1Censures.
1Again, those that are above others, grieve the spirits of those under them by unjust commands: as when Masters press their Servants to that which their consciences cannot digest, and so make them sin, and offer violence to that tender part.
1Againe, those that are above others, grieve the spirits of those under them by unjust commands: as when Masters presse their Servants to that which their consciences cannot digest, and so make them sinne, and offer violence to that tender part.
- 1By superiors.By superiours.