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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, we grieve the Spirit of others when those that are inferior, show themselves untractable to those above them in magistracy or ministry. When they make them spend their strength in vain: thus ⟨p. 67⟩the Spirit of God in Noah strove with the old world: our duty is therefore, to walk wisely in regard of others: and if it be a duty to please men in all things lawful in the way of humanity, much more ought we to please Christians in those things wherein we do not displease God; as being joined in communion with them in the same spirit. Yet here we must remember that it is one thing to cross the humour, and offend the pride of another; and another to grieve the Spirit in him: no cures can be wrought without grief in that kind, and if we grieve not their spirits, when such humours prevail in them, ⟨p. 68⟩we shall grieve our own for neglect of duty.
1Againe, wee grieve the Spirit of others when those that are inferiour, shew themselves untractable to those above them in magistracie or ministerie. When they make them spend their strength in vaine: thus ⟨p. 67⟩the Spirit of God in Noah strove with the old world: our duty is therefore, to walke wisely in regard of others: and if it bee a dutie to please men in all things lawfull in the way of humanity, much more ought we to please Christians in those things wherein wee doe not displease God; as being joyned in communion with them in the same spirit. Yet here wee must remember that it is one thing to crosse the humour, and offend the pride of another; and another to grieve the Spirit in him: no cures can bee wrought without griefe in that kinde, and if wee grieve not their spirits, when such humours prevaile in them, ⟨p. 68⟩we shall grieve our own for neglect of duty.
- 1By inferiors.By inferiours.