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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.
1. God is here to be taken for the whole God-head, Father, Son, and Spirit, for that Grace proceeds from them all. The Grace of the Father, the Grace of the Son, and Grace of the Spirit is here included. Hence, as the Father. is 1called, the God of Grace; so the Son is said to be full of Grace, Grace to be communicated; and the Holy Ghost is called, The Spirit of Grace. So then by this we perceive whence grace comes. Were all the World gracious, if God were not gracious, what was man the better? If the Father, or the Son, or the Holy-Ghost are gracious, if they were not all gracious, what would it profit? but now God is gracious, the three Persons in the God-head are gracious, and so long they that seek Grace are provided for; ⟨p. 32⟩for that there proceeds from them a River, or Grace like a flowing Stream. Indeed the Original of Grace to sinners is, the Good-Will of God; none can imagine how loving God is to sinful man. A little of it is seen, but they that see most, see BUT a little.
But there is added, And of the Lamb. The Lamb, is, Jesus as sacrificed, Jesus as man, and suffering. Hence you have the Lamb, at the first Vision of the Throne, set forth unto us thus, that is, as slain: And I beheld, 1and lo in the midst of the Throne, and of the four Beasts, and in the midst of the Elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain.
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