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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.
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 2sins, according to the Riches of Gods Grace.
Nor doth the Lamb of God, by becoming a means through death, of the conveyance of Grace to us, at all darken the nature or glory of Grace, but rather doth set it off the more. For wherein can Grace or Love more appear, than in his laying down his Life for us? I speak now of the Grace of the Son. And wherein could the nature and glory of grace of the Father more appear than in giving his Son to death for us, that grace might in a way of Justice as well as Mercy be bestowed upon the World? Wherefore, as he saith here, that the River of Water of Life proceedeth from God, so he adds, that the Lamb, because he would have us, while we are