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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, By this term WATER, an opposition to Sin is presented unto us. ⟨p. 7⟩Sin is compared to Water, to deadly Waters, and man is said to drink it, as one that drinketh waters. How much 1more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? So then that Grace and the Spirit of Grace is compared to Water, it is to show what an Antidote Grace is against Sin; it is as I may call it, Counter-Poison to it. It is that only thing by the virtue of which Sin can be forgiven, vanquished and overcome.
First, By this term WATER, an opposition to Sin is presented unto us. ⟨p. 7⟩Sin is compared to Water, to deadly Waters, and man is said to drink it, as one that drinketh waters. How much 1more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? So then that Grace and the Spirit of Grace is compared to Water, it is to shew what an Antidote Grace is against Sin; it is as I may call it, Counter-Poison to it. It is that only thing by the virtue of which Sin can be forgiven, vanquished and overcome.
Secondly, By this term WATER, you have an opposition also to the Curse, that is due to Sin, presented unto you. The Curse is compared to Water, the Remedy is compared to Water. Let the Curse come into 1the Bowels of the damned, saith the Psalmist, like water. The Grace of God also as you see, is compared to Water. The Curse is burning, Water is cooling; the Curse doth burn with Hell-Fire, cooling is by the Grace of the Holy Gospel: but they