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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 to slight Grace, to do despite to the Spirit of Grace, to prefer our own works to the derogating from Grace; what is it, but to contemn God? to contemn him when he is on the Throne, when he is on the Throne of his Glory? I say again, it is to spit in his Face even then when he commands thee to bow before him, to subject unto him, and to glorify the ⟨p. 50⟩Grace of his Glory, that proceeds from the Throne of his Glory. If men in old time were damned because they glorified him not as God, shall not they be more than damned, if more than damned can be, who glorify him not for his Grace? And, to be sure, none glorify him for his Grace but those that close in therewith, and submit themselves thereto. Talkers of Grace are but Mockers of God, but Flatterers of God. Those that only talk highly of Grace, and submit not themselves unto it, are but like to those that praise a look, or flatter him in his own conceits. Grace God has exalted; has set it upon the Throne, and so made it a King, and given it authority to reign; and thou goest by and hearest thereof, but wilt not submit thy self thereto, neither thy Soul, nor thy Life: why, what is this more than to flatter God with thy Lips, and than to lye unto him with thy Tongue? what is this ⟨p. 51⟩but to count him less wise than thy self, while he seeks glory by that, by which thou wilt not glorify him; while he displays his Grace before thee in the World from the Throne, and as thou goest by, with a nod thou callest it fine thing, but followest that which leadeth there-from? Tremble, tremble, ye sinners, that have despised the riches of his goodness. The day is coming when ye shall behold, and wonder, and perish, if Grace prevaileth not with you to be content to be saved by it to the praise of its Glory, and to the glory of him 1who hath set it upon the Throne.
But to slight Grace, to do dispite to the Spirit of Grace, to prefer our own works to the derogating from Grace; what is it, but to contemn God? to contemn him when he is on the Throne, when he is on the Throne of his Glory? I say again, it is to spit in his Face even then when he commands thee to bow before him, to subject unto him, and to glorifie the ⟨p. 50⟩