“Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.”
2 Cor. 1:22
“…in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession…”
Eph. 1:13-14
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
Eph. 4:30
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Articles
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Calvin, John – 1. ‘The Benefits of Christ made available to us by the Secret Operation of the Spirit’ in Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 2, bk. 3, pp. 85-92
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à Brakel, Wilhelmus – 38. ‘The Sealing of the Believer by the Holy Spirit & by Means of the Sacraments’ in The Christian’s Reasonable Service, vol. 2 ed. Joel Beeke, trans. Bartel Elshout Buy (1700; RHB, 1992/1999), pp. 469-87
a Brakel (1635-1711) was a contemporary of Voet and Witsius and a major representative of the Dutch Further Reformation.
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1600’s
Herman Witsius
Conciliatory or Irenical Animadversions on the Controversies Agitated in Britain: under the Unhappy Names of Antinomians & Neonomians (1696; Glasgow, 1807), ch. 6, p. 68
“IV. But the mutual union (which, on the part of an elect person, is likewise active and operative), whereby the soul draws near to Christ, joins itself to Him, applies, and in a becoming and proper manner closes with Him without any distraction, is made by faith only. And this is followed in order by the other benefits of the covenant of grace, justification, peace, adoption, sealing, perseverance, etc.”
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van’t Spijker, Willem – ‘The Sealing with the Holy Spirit in Bucer & Calvin’ in John Calvin & the Interpretation of Scripture: Calvin Studies X & XI (Calvin Studies Society, 2006), pp. 246-67 bound with ed. David Foxgrover, Calvin, Beza & Later Calvinism: Papers Presented at the 15th Colloquium of the Calvin Studies Society April 7-9, 2006 (Calvin Studies Society, 2006)
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