B00698:90
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 the Spirit suggests good motions, turn them presently into holy resolutions. Is this my duty, and that which tends to my comfort? certainly I will do it. Let not these motions dye in us. How many holy motions are kindled in hearing the Word, and ⟨p. 95⟩receiving the Sacraments, &c. which dye as soon as they are kindled, for want of resolution? therefore let us not give over till these motions be turned into purposes; and those good purposes ripened to holy actions, that they be not nipped in the blossom, but may bring forth perfect fruit. Let us labour to improve these talents, to the end for which they are sent: are they motions of comfort? let us use them for comfort: are they motions tending to duty? let us make conscience to do our duty: let not our despairing hearts cross the Spirit in his comforts, nor stand out stubbornly as enemies against our duty, for that is to cross ⟨p. 96⟩God, and to nip his motion• in the bud.
1When the Spirit suggests good motions, turne them presently into holy resolutions. Is this my duty, and that which tends to my comfort? certainely I will doe it. Let not these motions dye in us. How many holy motions are kindled in hearing the Word, and ⟨p. 95⟩receiving the Sacraments, &c. which dye as soone as they are kindled, for want of resolution? therefore let us not give over till these motions be turned into purposes; and those good purposes ripened to holy actions, that they be not nipped in the blossome, but may bring forth perfect fruit. Let us labour to improve these talents, to the end for which they are sent: are they motions of comfort? let us use them for comfort: are they motions tending to duty? let us make conscience to doe our duty: let not our despairing hearts crosse the Spirit in his comforts, nor stand out stubbornely as enemies against our duty, for that is to crosse ⟨p. 96⟩God, and to nip his motion• in the bud.