B00698:96
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.
1Upon any breach, we must first look by renewing repentance, and faith in Christ, to renew our peace with God, before we can expect the grace and comfort of the Spirit. For as the Spirit cometh from the Father and the Son, and is procured by the death and satisfaction of the Son to the Father, without ⟨p. 109⟩which, we could never have expected the gift of the Spirit: so still we must have an eye to this satisfaction by Christ, and reconciliation through it, before we can recover communion with the Spirit, as being the best fruit of the love of God reconciled through Christ. We see David in the 51. Psalm, first importunes God for mercy again and again, and then for the Spirit, and for the joy of salvation.
1Vpon any breach, wee must first looke by renewing repentance, and faith in Christ, to renew our peace with God, before wee can expect the grace and comfort of the Spirit. For as the Spirit commeth from the Father and the Sonne, and is procured by the death and satisfaction of the Son to the Father, without ⟨p. 109⟩which, we could never have expected the gift of the Spirit: so still we must have an eye to this satisfaction by Christ, and reconciliation through it, before wee can recover communion with the Spirit, as being the best fruit of the love of God reconciled through Christ. We see David in the 51. Psalme, first importunes God for mercy againe and againe, and then for the Spirit, and for the joy of salvation.
- 1Renew repentance.
1And take heed that nothing come in, nor go out of our souls that may grieve the Spirit of God: some things come in to us that grieve the Spirit; the corruptions we receive from others: some things