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…

Now here we have a River of Water of Life, that is clear, clear without dirt, and mud. Clear without the humane Inventions and muddy Conceptions of unsanctified, and uninstructed Judgments; yea, here you have a River the streams whereof lie open to all in the Church, so that they need not those instruments of Conveyance that are foul, and that use to make Water stink if they receive it to bring it to them that have need.

4. By [clear] we sometimes understand purgation; or that a thing has purged it self, or is purged from those Soils, and Imputations of evil wherewith sometimes they have been charged. [Then shalt thou be ¹CLEAR from this thy Oath, or how shall we clear our selves.] Something of this sense may be in the Text, for if men are not afraid to charge God with folly, which is intimated by [That thou mightest be clear when ⟨p. 95⟩²thou art Judged,] will they, think you, be afraid to impute evil to his word, and Grace, and Spirit? no verily; they are bold enough at this work. Nay, more than this, even from the Foundation of the World, men have cast slanders upon, and imputed base things unto the blessed Grace of the Gospel. But not to look so far back, Paul was one of the Pipes through which God conveyed this Grace to the World: and what was he counted for his so doing, but a pestilent fellow and a mover of Sedition ³throughout the whole World?

4. By [clear] we sometimes understand purgation; or that a thing has purged it self, or is purged from those Soils, and Imputations of evil wherewith sometimes they have been charged. [Then shalt thou be ¹CLEAR from this thy Oath, or how shall we clear our selves.] Something of this sence may be in the Text, for if men are not afraid to charge God with folly, which is intimated by [That thou mightest be clear when