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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.
Again, in the last day that great Day of the Feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any man thirst let him ⟨p. 5⟩1come unto me and drink. But of what? why, of his Rivers of Living Waters. But what are they? why, he answers, This he spake of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.
Again, in the last day that great Day of the Feast, Jesus stood and cryed saying, If any man thirst let him ⟨p. 5⟩1come unto me and drink. But of what? why, of his Rivers of Living Waters. But what are they? why, he answers, This he spake of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.
Yea, the Prophets and Servants of God in the Old-Testament, did take this Water of Life for the Spirit of Grace that should in the latter days be poured out into the Church. Hence Isaiah calls Water Gods Spirit, and Blessing, and Zechariah, the Spirit of Grace.
I will pour water upon him that is 1thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and my Blessing upon thy Off-spring. And Zecharias saith, I will pour upon the House of David, and upon the Inhabitants