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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.
This River is the running out of God's heart, the letting out of his very Bowels, for God is the Living God. This is his Heart and Soul. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do 1them good, and I will plant them in this Land assuredly, with my whole Heart, and with my whole Soul. I say, if ever Gods heart and soul appeared, it showed it self in giving this Water of Life: and the Throne from ⟨p. 113⟩whence it proceeds. Wherefore all the reason of the World that in the reception of it, thy heart and soul should run out and flow after him in Thanksgivings. See how David words it in the hundred and third Psalm, all the five first Verses, and do likewise.
This River is the running out of God's heart, the letting out of his very Bowels, for God is the Living God. This is his Heart and Soul. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do 1them good, and I will plant them in this Land assuredly, with my whole Heart, and with my whole Soul. I say, if ever Gods heart and soul appeared, it shewed it self in giving this Water of Life: and the Throne from ⟨p. 113⟩whence it proceeds. Wherefore all the reason of the World that in the reception of it, thy heart and soul should run out and flow after him in Thanksgivings. See how David words it in the hundred and third Psalm, all the five first Verses, and do likewise.
- 1Jer. 22. 41.
Fourthly, By the Characters that are given of this Water of Life, thou art capacitated to Judge, when a Notion, a Doctrine, an Opinion comes to Whine Ears, whether it is right good, and wholesome, or how. This River is pure, is clear, is pure, and clear as Crystal. Is the Doctrine offered unto thee so? or is it muddy and mixed with the Doctrines of men? look man, and see if the foot of the Worshippers of Bell be not there: and if the Waters be not fouled thereby. What Water is souled, is not the Water of Life, or at lest not the Water of Life in its clearness. Wherefore if thou findest it not right, go up higher