B00698:98
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.
Let no man say,1 Here is ado indeed, duty upon duty, this will make our life troublesome.
- 1Object.
The life of a Christian is an honourable,1 a comfortable, sweet life; indeed it requires the most care, and watchfulness of any life in the world, being the best life, it is begun here, and accomplished in an everlasting ⟨p. 112⟩life in heaven. Nothing in this world, neither our estates, nor our favour with great persons, can be preserved without watchfulness: and shall we think to preserve the chief happiness of our souls without it, having so many enemies without and within, that labour to draw us into a cursed condition?
The life of a Christian is an honourable,1 a comfortable, sweet life; indeed it requires the most care, and watchfulnesse of any life in the world, being the best life, it is begun here, and accomplished in an everlasting ⟨p. 112⟩life in heaven. Nothing in this world, neither our estates, nor our favour with great persons, can be preserved without watchfulnesse: and shall wee thinke to preserve the chiefe happinesse of our soules without it, having so many enemies without and within, that labour to draw us into a cursed condition?
- 1Answ.