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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.
We come now to discourse of the second thing with which we are presented by the Text: and that is, The quantity that there is, of this Water of Life. It is a River. He showed me a River of Water of Life. Waters that are Cordial, and that have in them a Faculty to give Life to them that want it, and to maintain Life where it is, are rare, and scarce, and to be found only in close Places, and little quantities; but here you see there is abundance, a great deal, a River, a River of Water of Life. In my handling of this Point: I will show you,
We come now to discourse of the second thing with which we are presented by the Text: and that is, The quantity that there is, of this Water of Life. It is a River. He shewed me a River of Water of Life. Waters that are Cordial, and that have in them a Faculty to give Life to them that want it, and to maintain Life where it is, are rare, and scarce, and to be found only in close Places, and little quantities; but here you see there is abundance, a great deal, a River, a River of Water of Life. In my handling of this Point: I will shew you,
First, What a River of Water of Life this is:
Secondly, And then draw some inferences there-from.