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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.
That it is the Spirit of Grace, or the Spirit and Grace of God, that is here intended. Consider,
First, The Spirit of Grace is in other places compared to Water: And,
Secondly, It is also called, The Spirit of Life. Just as here it is presented unto us, He showed me the Water of Life.
Secondly, It is also called, The Spirit of Life. Just as here it is presented unto us, He shewed me the Water of Life.
1. The Spirit of Grace is compared to Water. Whosoever, saith the Lamb, drinketh of the Water that I 1shall give him, shall never thirst. But the Water that I shall give him, shall be in him a Well of Water springing up into Everlasting Life. What can here by Water be intended, but the Spirit of Grace, that this poor Harlot the Woman of Samaria wanted, although she was ignorant of her want, as also of the excellency thereof? which Water also is here said to be such as will spring up in them that have it, as a Well into Everlasting Life.