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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.
Secondly, As there is a special signification in this term [Water,] so ⟨p. 10⟩there is also in this term [Life:] Water of Life. He showed me the Water of Life. In that therefore there is added to this word [Water] that, of [Life] it is, in the general, to show what excellent virtue and operation there is in this Water. It is aqua vitae, Water of Life, or Water that hath a Health and Life in it. And this term shows us,
Secondly, As there is a special signification in this term [Water,] so ⟨p. 10⟩there is also in this term [Life:] Water of Life. He shewed me the Water of Life. In that therefore there is added to this word [Water] that, of [Life] it is, in the general, to shew what excellent vertue and operation there is in this Water. It is aqua vitae, Water of Life, or Water that hath a Health and Life in it. And this term shews us,
First, That the World of graceless Men are dead: dead in Trespasses 1and Sins. Dead, that is, without Life and Motion God-ward, in the way of the Testament of his Son.
Secondly, It also shows us, That there is not any thing in the World, or in the Doctrine of the World, the Law, that can make them live. Life is only in this Water, Death is in all other things. The Law, I say, which is that that would if any thing in the whole World, give Life unto the World, but that yet killeth, condemneth, and was added that the