B00698:60
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.
1And in the last place this causeth another grief when those that are good watch not over their ways▪ the Spirit is grieved for the reproaches of religion tha• come from the wicked: for what say they? doth religion and the Spirit teach yet this? thus Christians make the name of God to be ill spoken of; and this grieves the Spirit, and will grieve them if they belong to God. Oh wretch that I am, that I should open the mouths of others and grieve the spirit of God, not only in my self, but in others, because he is grieved by me!
1And in the last place this causeth another griefe when those that are good watch not over their waies▪ the Spirit is grieved for the reproches of religion tha• come from the wicked: for what say they? doth religion and the Spirit teach yet this? thus Christians make the name of God to be ill spoken of; and this grieves the Spirit, and will grieve them if they belong to God. Oh wretch that I am, that I should open the mouthes of others and grieve the spirit of God, not onely in my selfe, but in others, because he is grieved by mee!
- 1By ill example the Spirit is grieved.
Scandalous courses: either by unreasonable use of ⟨p. 69⟩our liberty, without respect •o the weakness of others; •r by actions that are in themselves evil, or of ill re•ort; by such actions we grieve the spirits of others. An ill example always either grieveth or infecteth. The spirit of Lot was grieved for the unclean conversation of the Sodomites, which no question hastened their ruin.