B00698:64
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.
1The issues of grieving the Spirit, will prove very dangerous: for the Spirit may justly leave us to our own spirits and deceitful hearts; which as they are arch Flatterers, so will prove arch-Traitors to us, and so let in a worse guest into our souls. The ill Spirit is always ready, presently to ⟨p. 72⟩take possession; who, by joining with the stream o• our corruptions, may please us for a time, but will destroy us for ever.
1The issues of grieving the Spirit, will prove very dangerous: for the Spirit may justly leave us to our owne spirits and deceitfull hearts; which as they are arch Flatterers, so will prove arch-Traitors to us, and so let in a worse guest into our soules. The ill Spirit is alwayes ready, presently to ⟨p. 72⟩take possession; who, by joyning with the streame o• our corruptions, may please us for a time, but will de•stroy us for ever.
- 1Issues of grieving the Spirit.
When we grieve the good Spirit of God, and cause him to leave us; our soul is left as a hell: for what is hell but the absence of God, in his favour and mercy?
When we grieve the good Spirit of God, and cause him to leave us; our soule is left as a hell: for what is hell but the absence of God, in his favour and mercy?