B00698:93
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.
1Again, when we find the Spirit, not assisting and comforting as in former times, it is fit to search the ⟨p. 101⟩cause, which we shall find; some slighting of holy motions, or the means of breeding of them, or yielding to some corruption which we are more especially addicted unto, or some sin unrepented of, which we take no notice of. It is good therefore to scarce our souls to the bottom: there may be some hidden corruption lying in the soul, which may undermine our grace & comfort: there may be a privy thief that robs us of all. And besides beloved and secret sins: it is good to bethink our selves of old sins, which perhaps hitherto we have but outwardly thought of: and God is willing by some deadness and ⟨p. 102⟩trouble of spirit, to mind us of renewing of sorrow for them: for want of strict accounting with our selves, God calls us to these arrearages and back reckonings as we see in Josephs Brethren. If we find not that sweetness of communion with the Spirit, that formerly we enjoyed, bethink our selves when and wherein we lost it, that we may meet the Spirit again in these ways wherein we found him before we lost him, and take heed of those courses, in the entrance of which we found the Spirit leaving us.
1Againe, when wee finde the Spirit, not assisting and comforting as in former times, it is fit to search the ⟨p. 101⟩cause, which we shall finde; some slighting of holy motions, or the meanes of breeding of them, or yeelding to some corruption which wee are more especially addicted unto, or some sinne unrepented of, which wee take no notice of. It is good therefore to scarce our soules to the bottome: there may bee some hidden corruption lying in the soule, which may undermine our grace & comfort: there may bee a privy thiefe that robs us of all. And besides beloved and secret sinnes: it is good to bethinke our selves of old sinnes, which perhaps hitherto wee have but outwardly thought of: and God is willing by some deadnesse and ⟨p. 102⟩