B00698:81
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.
1When two good motions arise, seeming divers, the Spirit of God carries strong to one, (and that is from God) more than to the other. Good motions are either raised up in us,2 or sent unto us, by the Spirit, both ⟨p. 88⟩these if they be raised by the Spirit, will carry us to God: they will rise as high as the Spring is whence they come: what ariseth from our selves, endeth in our selves.
1When two good motions arise, seeming divers, the Spirit of God carries strong to one, (and that is from God) more than to the other. Good motions are either raised up in us,2 or sent unto us, by the Spirit, both ⟨p. 88⟩these if they bee raised by the Spirit, will carry us to God: they will rise as high as the Spring is whence they come: what ariseth from our selves, endeth in our selves.
- 1Answ. How to know the motions of the Spirit.
- 23 They raise higher.
1Those motions that the Spirit stirs up from within, come from sanctified judgement & estimation of what they are moved to; other motions, are hasty, and gone before they have their errand: holy motions are constant, (as strengthened from constant grace within) will they see the issue of what they are moved to: other motions are like lightening, and sudden flashes, that leave the soul more da•ke and amazed then before. Holy motions are answerable to