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…

First, Then, the bottom of all is, That we might be saved. These ¹things I say, saith Christ, that you might be saved; and again, I am come that ye might have life, and that ²you might have it more abundantly. This is the bottom of this great River of Water of Life, and of its proceeding from the Throne of God and of the Lamb: it is that we might be saved: it is that we might live. What a good bottom is here! What a sound bottom is here! But few deep Rivers have a good bottom. Mud is at the bottom of most Waters in the World, even the Sea it self when it worketh, casts up ⟨p. 101⟩Mire and Dirt, and so do the hearts of Sinners: but the bottom of this Grace of God, and of the Spirit, and Word thereof, is that we might be saved, consequently a very good bottom.

1. 1Joh. 5. 34.
2. 2chap. 10. 10.

Secondly, As the bottom of all is, that we may be saved; so that we may be saved by Grace, and this is a bottom sounder and sounder. Our Salvation might have bin laid upon a more difficult bottom than this. It might have bin laid in our works, God might have laid it there, and have bin just, or he might have left us to have laid it where we would, and then to be sure we had laid it there, and so had made but a muddy bottom to have gone upon to life. But now, this River of Water of Life, it has a better bottom; (the Water is as clear as Crystal, ¹look down to the bottom and see) we are justified freely by his Grace ²