A30213:122
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.
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.
And because it so happeneth, sometimes, that some of those things where with the Holy Ghost has beautified the Soul, may languish to a being, if not quite dead, yet ready to die; 1therefore he doth not only refresh and water our Souls, but renew the face thereof, by either quickening to life that which remains, or by supplying of us with that which is new, to our godly Perseverance and everlasting Life. Thus thou waterest 2the Earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the River of God.