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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.
First, Let this then in the first place, be a provocation to us to be more free in making use of this Water. There are many now a-days, that are for inventing of Waters, to drink for the health of the Body: ⟨p. 105⟩and to allure those that are ill, to buy, they will praise their waters beyond their worth. Yea, and if they be helpful to one Person in a hundred, they make as if they could cure every one. Well here you have the great Physician himself with his Water, and he calls it the Water of Life, Water of Life for the Soul; this Water is Probatum est. It has been proved times without number: it never fails, but where 'tis not taken. No 1Disease comes amiss to it, it cures blindness, deadness, deafness, dumbness. It makes the lips of them that 2are asleep to speak. This is the RIGHT Holy Water (all other is counterfeit) it will drive away Devils and Spirits, 'twill cure Enchantments, and Witchcrafts, 3it will heal the Mad and Lunatic: it will cure the most desperate Melancholy, it will dissolve doubts, and mistrusts, though they are grown as hard as Stone in the heart: It will make you speak well, it will ⟨p. 106⟩make you have a white Soul, and that is better than to have a white Skin. It will make you taste well, it will make you disrelish all hurtful Meats; it will beget in you a good 4appetite to that which is good; 'twill remove Obstructions in the Stomach and Liver: It will cause that what you receive of Gods Bread, shall turn to good nourishment, and make 5good Blood. In a word, it preserveth Life: They that take this Water shall live longer than did old Methusalem; and yet he lived a 6great while.