B00698:76
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 second miscarriage is, in an ungrounded censure of our selves: there be three things that fear frees us from the danger of. First,2 fear lest the time of our conversion be past, because we have so often grieved the Spirit: whereas if their time were past, they would be given up to a careless security. A second is fear of some judgement which God stirs up in the heart to prevent the judgement that we may not feel that ⟨p. 84⟩we fear, because fear stirs up care, and care stirs up diligence to avoid what we fear: a third is, fear, lest we have committed the sin against the holy Ghost, which shows we have not committed that sin; it is never committed but without fear, and with delight. In these cases we need fear them least, that fear themselves most.
1The second miscarriage is, in an ungrounded censure of our selves: there be three things that feare frees us from the danger of. First,2 feare lest the time of our conversion be past, because we have so often grieved the Spirit: whereas if their time were past, they would be given up to a carelesse security. A second is feare of some judgement which God stirres up in the heart to prevent the judgement that wee may not feele that ⟨p. 84⟩we feare, because feare stirs up care, and care stirres up diligence to avoid what we feare: a third is, feare, lest we have committed the sinne against the holy Ghost, which shewes wee have not committed that sinne; it is never committed but without feare, and with delight. In these cases we need feare them least, that feare themselves most.
- 12 Concerning themselves.
- 2Fearefrees from three things.