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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.
The Spirit also garnisheth the Soul with such things as are proper for it to the making of it live that life that by the word of God is called for.
It implanteth Light, Repentance, Faith, Fear, Love, Desires after God, Hope, Sincerity, and what else is necessary for the making the man a Saint: these things I say, are the fruits and 1effects of this Spirit, which as a River of Water of Life proceedeth forth of the Throne of God and of the Lamb. Hence the Spirit is called the Spirit of Faith, the Spirit of Love, and the Spirit of a sound mind; for that the Spirit is the Root and Original of all these things by his operations in, and upon the face of the Soul.
But again, as this living Water, this spirit, and the Grace thereof, doth thus; so it also maintains these things, once planted in the Soul, by its continual waterings of them in the Soul. Hence he saith, I will water it every moment. ⟨p. 74⟩1Water IT; his Vineyard, the Soul of the Church, the Graces of the Church; and so the Soul, and Graces of every godly Man.
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