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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.
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.
Wherefore by this word Lamb, we are to understand, who, or by what means Grace doth now run from the Throne of God, like a River to the World. It is because of, or through the Lamb. We are justified 1freely by the Grace of God through ⟨p. 33⟩the redemption that is in Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his Blood. And again, We have redemption through his Blood even the forgiveness of 2sins, according to the Riches of Gods Grace.
Wherefore by this word Lamb, we are to understand, who, or by what means Grace doth now run from the Throne of God, like a River to the World. It is because of, or thorow the Lamb. We are justified 1freely by the Grace of God thorow ⟨p. 33⟩the redemption that is in Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation thorow Faith in his Blood. And again, We have redemption thorow his Blood even the forgiveness of