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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.
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 2By Grace are ye saved; there is the bottom. Now Grace, as I have ⟨p. 102⟩showed you is a firm bottom to stand on, 'tis of Grace that Life might be sure. Surely David was not here, 3or surely this was not the River that he spake of, when he said, I sink in 4deep Waters where there is no standing, I am come into deep Waters where the floods over-flow me: deliver me out of the Mire, and let me not sink. I say, to be sure this could not be the River: No, David was now straggled out of the way, was tumbled into some pit, or into some muddy and dirty hole; for as for this River, it has a good bottom: a bottom of Salvation by Grace, and a Man needs not cry out when he is here, that he sinks, or that he is in danger of being drowned in mud or mire.
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 Cristal, 1