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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.
The Throne] That of which the Mercy-Seat was a Type: that which is called the Throne of Grace. And it 1called the Throne of Grace even therefore, because 'tis that from, or out of which proceeds this River of Water of Life; this overflowing Grace of God. Now it may be asked, What is the Throne of Grace? And I 2shall answer, It is the Humanity of Christ. He is the Throne, He is the Jacob in which God sitteth. And 3he shall be for a glorious Throne to his Fathers House. The fullness of the God-head dwells in him bodily, and God was in Christ reconciling ⟨p. 38⟩the World unto himself, nor can Grace come to men but by Christ, nor can God rest as to our Salvation but in him. But because I have spoken of this thing more particularly upon that Text, [Let us therefore come boldly to the Throne of Grace, &c.] I shall therefore here say no more.
Only methinks it is a glorious Title that the Holy Ghost has given to the Humanity of Christ, in that he calls it the Throne of God; and methinks he gives it the highest preference, in that he saith, Out thence proceeds a pure River of Water of Life: We will a little therefore speak something to this Word [the Throne, the Throne of God.]