The Fountain of Life Opened

Is not every one of Christs wounds a mouth open to plead for more holiness, more service and more fruit from you? Oh what will engage you if this will not? But

Thirdly, ³This is not all; as a man when he weigheth a thing, casteth in weight after weight, till the scales are counterpoised: so doth God cast in engagement after engagement, and argument upon argument, till thy heart (Christian) be weighed up, and won to this heavenly life. And therefore as Elihu said to Job, cap. 36.22. Suffer me a little, and I will show thee what I have yet to speak on Gods behalf. Some Arguments have already been urged on the behalf of the Father, and Son for purity and cleanness of life; and next I have something to plead on the behalf of the Spirit. I plead now on his behalf, who hath so many times helped you to plead for your selves with God. He that hath so often refreshed, quickened, and comforted you, he will be quenched, grieved, and displeased by an impure, loose, and careless conversation; and what will you do then? Who shall comfort you, when the Comforter is departed from you? When he that should relieve your souls, is far off? Oh grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by which you are sealed to the day of Redemption, Eph. 4.30. There is nothing grieves him more than impure practices. For he is a holy Spirit. And look as water damps and quenches the fire; so doth sin quench the Spirit, 1 Thes. 5.19. Will you quench the warm affections and burning desires which he hath kindled in your bosoms; if you do, it is a question whether ever you may recover them again to your dying day. the Spirit hath a delicate Sense. It is the most tender thing in the whole world. He feels the least touch of sin, and is grieved when thy corruptions within are stirred by temptations, and break out to the defiling of thy life; then is the holy Spirit of God as it were made sad, and heavy within thee. As that word [Greek or Hebrew],