B00698:67
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.
Qu. Whence is it that we grieve the Spirit?
Answ. Because there is a cursed principle in us, always active, which is not perfectly subdued in this life. Death is the accomplishment of mortification: but while we are, here, this corruption in us will alway be working. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit: the flesh is an active busy thing, it bestirs it self: now when contraries are so near, as the flesh ⟨p. 76⟩and Spirit, in the same soul: they must needs thwart and grieve one another continually.
Answ. Because there is a cursed principle in us, alwaies active, which is not perfectly subdued in this life. Death is the accomplishment of mortification: but while we are, here, this corruption in us will alway be working. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit: the flesh is an active busie thing, it bestirs it self: now when cōtraries are so neare, as the flesh ⟨p. 76⟩and Spirit, in the same soule: they must needs thwart and grieve one another continually.