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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.
So then, he that comes to, and drinks of this Water, glorifies God for his Wisdom, praises God for his Wisdom. Such an one saith, that God is only Wise, and bowing his head, saith again, To God only Wise, be Glory, both now and for ever, Amen.
But he that shall contemn this Grace, confronts the highest Wisdom even Wisdom upon the Throne. He saith of himself, I am wiser than Daniel, than the Judgment of God. I could have found out a more safe way to Heaven my self, and had I been of God's Counsel, I would have told him so. All this so horrible blasphemy, naturally proceeds from him that liketh not that Grace should be king on the Throne, and should proceed out of the Throne to the World. But shall he that contendeth with the Almighty, instruct him; he ⟨p. 55⟩1that reproveth God, let him answer it.
- 1Job. 49. 2.
The Text says, that this very Doctrine 1to the Greeks, to the Wise, is foolishness, and the preaching of it a foolish thing to them: But it will appear even then, when the conclusion of all things is come; and when these wise ones by their Wisdom have fooled themselves to Hell, that this foolishness of God, is wiser than Men, and the weakness of God stronger than Men.