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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.
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.
THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
Courteous Reader,
I Have now presented thee with something of a Discourse of the Water of Life and its Virtues, therefore thou mayest, if thou wilt, call this Book, Bunyan's Bill of his Masters ⟨image 3⟩Water of Life. True, I have not set forth at Large the Excellent Nature and Quality thereof, nor can that SO be done by the Pen or Tongue of Men or Angels. Yet this I have said, and so saying, said truly, That whosoever shall drink of this Water, shall find it in him a Well of Water; and not only so, but a Well springing up in him to Everlasting Life, let his Disease be what it will. And as Men in their Bills, for Conviction to Readers, do give an Account to the Country of the Persons cured, and the Diseases that have been removed by Liquors and Preparations they have ⟨image 3⟩made for that end, so could I, were it not already *done by an Infallible Pen to my Hand, give you accounts of numberless Numbers that have not only been made to live, but to live for ever by drinking of this Water, this pure Water of Life. Many of them indeed are removed from hence, and live where they cannot be spoken with as yet, but abundance of them do still remain here, and have their abode yet with Men.