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A68733	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 meanes 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.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1637 (1637)	STC 22495; ESTC S117375	62,609	291

blessing that we 〈◊〉 weary of it and fret against it The office of the Spirit is to set out Christ and the favour and mercy of God in Christ when we slight Christ in the Gospell the ordinance organ of working good in us the holy Ghost is slighted and grieved Bad is our condition by nature and what a deale of misery doe we adde to this bad condition Are we not all the children of wrath And have we not since we were borne added sinne unto sinne Do we not grow in sinne as we do in yeares Is not God just and hell terrible Now God out of infinite mercy having proviced a way to free us from the danger of sinne and not onely so but to advance us to life everlasting and that we should not be ignorant of that he hath done for us he hath set up an ordinance wherin the holy Ghost discovers his love When we sleight this and account it but an ordinary favour nay rather a burthen and thinke 〈…〉 divine my●●●● 〈…〉 may be 〈…〉 is too 〈…〉 what 〈…〉 needs all this adoe This grieves the Spirit whose office is to lay open the unsearchable riches of Christ the infinite and glorious mercy and goodnesse of God in Christ wherein God hath set himselfe in all his attributes to triumph and be glorified We grieve all the sacred Trinity God the Father is grieved to see his mercy slighted God the Sonne to see his bloud accounted common and God the holy Ghost whose office it is to discover these things This is the common sinne of the times and kingdome which threatneth judgement more than any thing else When the Gospell the blessed truth of salvation is published The axe is layd to the root of the tree the instrument of de●●ruction if men slight the mercies of God entertaine not Christ walke not worthy of the Gospell they shall feele the stroke of his sharpe anger The bloud-red horse followeth the white horse Revel 6. 4. The white horse is the publishing of the Gospell when God sets himselfe to glorifie himselfe in mercy in the greatest benefits and we account them nothing or but common favours God removes the Candlesticke the red horse of bloud and destruction followes And indeed what man will endure his greatest favours and kindnesses to be sleighted Now a degree in grieving the Spirit this way is when men will not be thorowly convinced of their owne sinfull condition and of the infinite love and mercy of God in Christ in the pardoning of them If God by his Spirit in the Ministery or in a particular reproofe come to men and discover their naturall condition and tell them they are worse than they take themselves to be they will oppose it and study revenge as Saint Paul saith Am I become your enemie because I tell you the truth this must needs grieve the Spirit Againe the holy Spirit is grieved when ye have a corrupt judgement of things not weighing them in the right ballance nor value them according to their worth When wee esteeme any knowledge rather than divine knowledge any truths but truths that concerne Christ when men look upon grace as contemptible and prefer other things above it make a tush at holinesse give us say they gifts and parts Alas what are all gifts and parts without a gracious heart Have not the divels greater parts than any man Are t●ey not called Daemones from the largenesse of their understanding If parts and gifts were best the divels were better than wee What an indignity is this to the holy Spirit to thinke it better to be accounted witty and politicke then to be holy and gracious Again those sins wherein there is plotting and contriving exceedingly grieve the Spirit because they are done in cold bloud David deeply wounded his conscience grieved the Spirit in plotting the death of Vriah which was the diminution of the credit of David that the Scripture saith he was good in all things except in the matter of Vriah why because therein he grieved the Spirit most in plotting and contriving the cruell murther of so good a man How can they thinke they have the Spirit of God that plot and undermine mens estates to have their wils in unjust courses or if they have the spirit can this be without grieving it for the Spirit will perpetually suggest the contrary Againe we grieve the holy Spirit when we commit such sinnes as we might avoid such sinnes as we have some helps against and least provocation unto It is a generall rule Quanto major facilitas c. The more the facility of not sinning the greater the sinne Therefore when we are tempted to sin consider what conscience saith I have been an hearer of the word what hath the Spirit of God revealed and discovered unto me He hath shewed that this is a sinne whom do I grieve by the commission of it The Spirit of God and wound my owne conscience and then consider will that that I sinne for countervaile this Doe I not buy my sin too deare Sinnes are dearly bought with the grieving of the Spirit of God therefore wisely thinke before hand what sinne will cost Men grieve the Spirit by cavilling against the truth The heathen mā could say It is an ill custome to be cavilling against Religion whether in good earnest or in jest yet wee have a sect a generation of men that are of all religions of no religion men of a contradictory spirit that alwayes take the opposite part that cavill at the truth to shew their parts this is too ordinary among the wits of the world This grieves the holy Spirit also when men take the office of the Spirit from him that is when we will doe things in our owne strength and by our owne light as if we were gods to our selves Man naturally aff●cts a kinde of divinity it was the fault of Adam and ●ill God drive him out of himselfe by his Spirit and by afflictions he sets much by his owne parts and wit and thereupon neglects prayer and dependance on God as if the Spirit had nothing to doe with his regiment When men set upon actions in the strength of naturall parts perhaps they may goe on in their course as civill men but never as Christians to have comfort of their actions because they will be guides and gods to themselves If a man belong to God God will crosse him in such wayes wherein he refuseth to honour God and to give him his due place he shall miscarry when perhaps other men shall have successe though it be to harden them to destruction This is a subtle way by which Sathan abuseth men The life of a Christian is dependant on an higher principle than himselfe to rule and guide him Another way whereby we commonly grieve the Spirit of God is when the minde is troubled with a multitude of busines when the soule is like a mill where one cannot heare

A FOUNTAINE SEALED OR The Dutie of the sealed to the SPIRIT And the worke of the Spirit in Sealing BY Rich. Sibbes D. D. the 2 d Edition Printed for L Chapman are to be sould at his shope at Chancery Lane end in Holborne Will Marshall sculpsit 1637. 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 meanes 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 and are to be sold at his shop at Chancery lane end in Holborne 1637. TO The truely Noble and much honoured Lady the Lady Elizabeth Brooke Wife to Sir Robert Brooke Madame BEsides that deserved interest your Ladyship held in the fections and esteem of this worthy man more then any friend alive which might intitle you to all that may call him Authour This small piece of his acknowledgeth a more speciall propriety unto your Ladyship For though his tongue was as the Pen of a ready Writer in the hand of Christ who guided him yet your Ladyships hand and Pen was in this his scribe and Amanuensis whilest hee dictated a first draught of it in private with intention for the publique In which labour both of humility and love your Ladyship did that honour unto him which Baruch thogh great and Noble did but receive in the like transcribing the words of Ieremiah from his mouth wherin yet your Ladyship did indeed but write the story of your owne life which hath beene long exactly framed to the rules herein prescribed We therefore that are intrusted in the publishing of it deeme it but an act of Justice in us to return it thus to your Ladyship unto whom it owes even its first Birth that so where ever this little Treatise shall come there also this that you have done may bee told and recorded for a memoriall of you And we could not but esteeme it also an addition of honour to the worke that no lesse then a Ladies hand so pious so much honoured brought it forth into the world although in it selfe it deserveth as much as any other this blessed wombe did beare The Lord in way of recompence write all the holy Contents of it yet more fully and abundantly in your Ladyships heart and all the lineaments of the Image of Iesus Christ and seale up all unto you by his blessed spirit with joy and peace to the day of Redemption Madame we are your Ladyships devoted THO. GOODWIN PHILIP NYE THE CONTENTS GRieve not the holy Spirit of God The Holy Ghost why called a Spirit page 3 Why holy page 5 From the Apostles disswasion these foure presupposed truths 1 That the holy Ghost is in us page 8 2 And is as a guide to us page 12 3 The best of us are apt to grieve him page 13 4 Therefore wee should bee carefull of it page 14 § 1 Of grieving the Spirit I What it is to grieve the Spirit page 16. how the Spirit worketh in us page 20 II Wherein doe we especially grieve the Spirit 1 In our selves and that in these particulars 1 In walking contrary to and in neglecting of its motions page 25. and comforts page 27. seeking comfort from the flesh page 28 2 By unkindenesse page 29. the sinnes of Professors and those that have most acquaintance with the Spirit grieve most page 30 3 By presumptuous sinnes page 33 sinnes against knowledge of two sorts ibid. why voluntary sinnes are so great and grieve the Spirit so much page 36 the reason why sinnes of the second Table grieve most page 39 upon divers respects the same sort of sinnes may grieve more and lesse page 44 4 By worldlinesse and paying tribute to the flesh page 45 5 Abusing spirituall things to our owne ends page 48 and fathering the workes of the flesh upon the spirit page 49 6 By sins against the Gospell page 49 slighting ordinances page 51 7 Sinnes plotted and contrived page 57 8 By false judgement of things page 55 9. By not using the helpes we have page 58 10 Cavilling against the truth page 59 11 By doing duty in our own strength page 61 12 Thrusting our selves into over-much worldly imployment page 61 whence 13 Omission or slight performance of duty page 63 2 In others many wayes as 1 Neglecting the grace in them page 65 2 Sharpe censures page 65 3 Superiours by unjust commands page 66 4 Inferiours by untractablenesse 5 By evill examples page 68 III How we may know when we have grieved the spirit page 69 and what is the danger of it page 71 How farre a childe of God may grieve the Spirit page 76 Of the sinne against the Holy Ghost page 81 and a twofold miscarriage about it in censuring page 82 IIII What course we should take to prevent grieving the Spirit page 84 in divers rules 1 Give your selfe up to the government of it page 84 2 Subject constantly to the Spirits motions they are knowne from other motions 1 By a speciall strength in them by which they are raised to higher ends page 87 2 By their constancy page 88 3 They proceed from a changed heart page 89 4 They are seasonable ibid. 5 A selfe evidēce in thē page 90 6 Orderly in respect of both Tables of the law ibid. 7 Dependant upon God page 91 3 Ioyne and co-operate with the Spirit page 92 4 Turne motions into resolutions page 94 and resolutions into practise page 95 5 Depend on ordinances and get a heart suteable to them page 96 6 Observe the Spirits first withdrawing and search the cause page 100 7 Take heed of such sinnes as we terme little ones page 102 and looke upon all sinne in the rise and root of it page 104 8 Get spirituall wisedome to know what is pleasing and displeasing to the Spirit page 105 9 Vpon breaches renew repentance page 108 10 Avoyd corrupt communication page 109 Whereby you are sealed § 2 Of the sealing of the Spirit 1 Christ is sealed page 122 2 So are Christians page 125 I What this sealing is and how it is wrought page 125 II The privileges of it A seale serveth for 1 Confirmation page 131 2 Distinction page 132 3 Appropriation page 139 4 Estimation page 141 5 Secrecy page 144 6 Security page 146 III Degrees of sealing 1 The worke of faith page 149 2 Sanctification page 150. yet not without a new act of the Spirit page 153. the reasons page 155 3 Ioy page 156. which hath its degrees also page 158 being from the spirit page 159 Of the three witnesses on earth 160 their order page 164 Of the witnesse of the Spirit immediately from