If you ask, now, “Which of these senses is chiefly intended
in this expression of our being sealed by the Holy Ghost?” I answer, The
first, not excluding the other. We are sealed to the day of redemption,
when, from the stamp, image, and character of the Spirit upon our souls, we
have a fresh sense of the love of God given to us, with a comfortable
persuasion of our acceptation with him. But of this whole matter I have
treated at large Perseverance of the Saints, chap.
viii. vol. xi. elsewhere.