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SSg
Ephefians,
Chap. 4,
V
a
a.29,io
How the holy
Spirit
doth
grieve.
Co
h.3.3
3
How
we
are
fealedby
the
holy
Ghoft.
venz9
Verlo.
We mull
make
coafcience
of
cvill
words.
I.
That
that the
Spirit
is Paid
togrieve,not that
forrow or
any
fuch
ficke paffion
dothbefall
it, but becaufe it
doth
that which
they doe
that
receive grievance. As
a
gueft
in
an
Inne being molefted will with
-,
draw himfelfe
difpleafed: So
theholy
Ghoft
is
Paid
to
grieve when
he
not
manifeft
his
comfortable pretence,
and furceafeth
his
com-
fortable
wort,
ing
in
us,fhutting
it
up
as
it
were
in
difpleafure.
For
[Sealing]
mark
that this
phrafe
is
ufed
interchangeably twixt
God
and us,
he
is
faid
to
feale us, we
to
put
Seale
to
him that
be
is
true.
The
latter
is
nothing but
believingGod.Now
what this
fealing
of
us
meaneth, we
(hail
better underftand, if
we confider
the
ufe
of
Sea-
ling.
r. It
doth
inclofe things and provide for
the
fecrecy
of
them
, as
fealing
letters,
and
thus we arc fealed,
a Pealed
fountaine, becaufe
the
things
that
are given
us,
are hidde from the eyes
of
the blind world,
t
leh.3.t.
But
this
fenfebelongeth not to
this place.
z.
To
feale
a
thing
is
to
mark
it
and diftinguifh
it
from
other,
loh.
6.27.
Him bath
God
the
Father
fealed.
3.
It
doth
confirm things and
make
them authenticall,as
in
all
kind
of
inftruments, they are blankes till the
Seale
be palled
:
Now
theft
laic
fcnfes
may here be conceived;
By
whom
we
are
marked forth
and
fet apart
to redemption,
as
alto inwardly allured touching
our
finali
deliverance from all evil(, and glorious liberty
of
the
fons
of
God:
And
I think
the former
of
thefe
molt
fitly meant; for
in
r
Cer.
r. the
holy Ghoft diftinguitheththefe things,
the Confirming, and anointing,
and (idling
of
us.
Redemption is
here put for
the redemption
of
thebody,when
we
(hail
be delivered from all bondage into
the
full
libertie
oflthe
fonnes
of
God.
The
fumme
of
thewords
is
this
:
"
You
that
are
Chrifts true Scholars mutt not think that
to
re-
"fraine
grolle deeds
is
enough, and
that words
are free,
but
"
you
muff make
confcience
as
well
of
finfull and idle rotten
"
words
as
of
evil!
deeds, and though
that
many
evil) things
"
will
be
at
your tongues end, yet
have
hay
of
your
lips, as
"
not
to let
any
rotten word come out of your mouth,
but
"
when you are to fpeak,
fee
your fpeech
be
good
to
edifi.
"cation
;
that
is, be fuch
as
either the matter or manner
of
it,
"
or
both
may encreafe
the
graces
of
God
in
them that
heare
"it:
And the rather you mull
doe
this,
becaufe
this finfull
"idle
difcourfe
doth
grieve
the
Spirit
of
God,
who
deferveth
"
no fuch thing
at
your hands,for
he
doth,
working
in
you,
"
both
allure you
inwardly
and
fet
a
mark upon you
,
that
in
"
thegreat Day
of
the Lord
you may have full
redemption.
a.
Then
we
fee that
we
that
are
new
Creatures
in
chri
fE
mull
make
can
Peace
well
of evil!
words
,rsevid'workes.
For
he
that
is
a
new Crea-
ture mutt
as
well
get
a
newtongue
as
a
new hand ;
our
tongue
hath
the poyfonofafpes
under it, it
is
gone with corruption, that
all
the
fait