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The water of life, or, A discourse showing the richness and glory of the…The water of life, or, A discourse shewing the richness and glory of the…
The water of life, or, A discourse showing the richness and glory of the grace and spirit of the gospel, as set forth in Scripture by this term, The water of life by John Bunyan.The water of life, or, A discourse shewing the richness and glory of the grace and spirit of the gospel, as set forth in Scripture by this term, The water of life by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1688
Title page typeset from the transcription.
OF THE River of Water OF LIFE.OF THE River of VVater OF LIFE.
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.
Now when this living Water is received, it takes up its Seat in the Heart, whence it spreads it self to the awakening of all the Powers of the Soul. For as in the first Creation the Spirit of God moved upon the face of ⟨p. 72⟩the Waters, in order to putting of that Creature into that excellent fashion and harmony which now we behold with our Eyes: even so the new Creation, to wit, the making of us new to God, is done by the over-spreading of the same Spirit also. For the Spirit, as I may so say, sitteth and broodeth upon the Powers of the Soul, as the Hen doth on cold Eggs, till they wax warm and receive life. The Spirit then warmeth us, and bringeth the dead and benumbed Soul (for so 'tis before Conversion) to a godly sense and understanding of States, of States both natural and spiritual: and this is the beginning of the work of the Spirit by which the Soul is made capable of understanding what God, and himself is.
Now when this living Water is received, it takes up its Seat in the Heart, whence it spreads it self to the awakening of all the Powers of the Soul. For as in the first Creation the Spirit of God moved upon the face of ⟨p. 72⟩the Waters, in order to putting of that Creature into that excellent fashion and harmony which now we behold with our Eyes: even so the new Creation, to wit, the making of us new to God, is done by the over-spreading of the same Spirit also. For the Spirit, as I may so say, sitteth and broodeth upon the Powers of the Soul, as the Hen doth on cold Eggs, till they wax warm and receive life. The Spirit then warmeth us, and bringeth the dead and benummed Soul (for so 'tis before Conversion) to a godly sense and understanding of States, of States both natural and spiritual: and this is the beginning of the work of the Spirit by which the Soul is made capable of understanding what God, and himself is.
And this drinking in of the Spirit, is rather as the ground drinks in Rain, than as a rational Soul does through sense of the want thereof.