The Fountain of Life Opened

(1.) First, It pulls you back from sin, as in Joseph; How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God! And it also inclines you powerfully to obedience. 'Tis a curb to sin, and a spur to holiness. It is unpossible for all others to live spiritually and heavenly, because they have no new nature to incline them thereunto. And methinks it should be hard for you to live carnally, and sensually; and therein cross the very bent and tendency of the new creature, which is formed in you. How can you neglect Prayer as others do, whiles the Spirit by divine pulsations is awaking and rousing up your sluggish hearts with such inward motions, and whispers as that, Psal. 27.8. Seek my face. Yea, whilst you fell (during your omissions of duty) something within that bemoans it self, and as it were cries for food, pains and gripes you, like an empty stomach, and will not let you be quiet till it be relieved. How can you let out your hearts to the world as other men do; when all that while your Spirit is restless, and aches like a bone out of joint. And you can never be at ease till you come back to God, and say as Psal. 116. Return to thy rest, O my soul. Is it not hard, yea, naturally impossible to fix a stone and make it abide in the fluid air? Doth not every creature in a restless motion tend to its proper Centre, and desire its own perfection? So doth this new creature also. You see how the Rivers in their course will not be checked, but bear down all obstacles in their way & Saevior ab obice ibit. A stop doth but make them rage the more, and run the swifter afterwards.

(1.) First, It pulls you back from sin, as in Ioseph; How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God! And it also inclines you powerfully to obedience. 'Tis a curb to sin, and a spur to holiness. It is unpossible for all others to live spiritually and heavenly, because they have no new nature to incline them thereunto. And methinks it should be hard for you to live carnally, and sensually; and therein cross the very bent and tendency of the new creature, which is formed in you. How can you neglect Prayer as others do, whiles the Spirit by divine pulsations is awaking and rousing up your sluggish hearts with such inward motions, and whispers as that, Psal. 27.8. Seek my face. Yea, whilst you fell (during your omissions of duty) something within that bemoans it self, and as it were cryes for food, pains and gripes you, like an empty stomach, and will not let you be quiet till it be relieved. How can you let out your hearts to the world as other men do; when all that while your Spirit is restless, and akes like a bone out of joint. And you can never be at ease till you come back to God, and say as