B00698:73
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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Thirdly, after such fearful relapses, darkness in the understanding, and rebellion in the will increaseth, sin grows stronger, and they weaker and weaker to resist.
Thirdly, after such fearefull relapses, darkenesse in the understanding, and rebellion in the will increaseth, sinne growes stronger, and they weaker and weaker to resist.
Fourthly, Satan being once cast out by some degree of illumination and reformation, brings seven devils after, worse than himself; when they see their former courses stand not with their lusts and hopes, they take a contrary course, and so fall to bitterness in the end.
Fourthly, Sathan being once cast out by some degree of illumination and reformation, brings seven divels after, worse than himselfe; when they see their former courses stand not with their lusts and hopes, they take a contrary course, and so fall to bitternesse in the end.
1There is a double miscarriage about this sin: some are too head-long in their censures of others, ⟨p. 83⟩whereas the greater the sin is,2 the greater caution should be in fastening it upon any, especially whose spirits we are not thoroughly acquainted withal; considering so many thing must meet in this sin.
1There is a double miscarriage about this sinne: some are too head-long in their censures of others,