B00698:68
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
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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.
1It may be emanded how far forth a child of God may grieve the Spirit, and yet remain the child of God?
1It may be emanded how farre forth a childe of God may grieve the Spirit, and yet remaine the childe of God?
- 1Quest How far a child of God may grieve the Spirit.Quest How far a childe of God may grieve the Spirit.