The Fountain of Life Opened

And such is the deliciousness of this subject that were there ten thousand Volumes written upon it, they would never cloy, or become nauseous to a gracious heart. We use to say one thing tires, and it's true that it doth so; except that one thing be virtually, and eminently all things; as Christ is: and then one thing can never tire. For such is the variety of sweetness in Christ, who is the deliciae humanigeneru, the delights of the Children of men; that every time he is opened to believers, from Pulpit, or Press; it is as if Heaven had furnished them with a new Christ: and yet he is the same Christ still.

The Synopsis prefixed to this Treatise, will show you, that the method is wholly new, and the Treatise it self will satisfy you, that I have not boasted in another mans line; of things made ready to my hand: which I speak not in the least to win any praise to my self, from the undertakement; but to remove prejudices from it: for I see more defects in it, than most of my Readers will see; and can forethink more faults to be found in it, than I shall now stand to tell thee of, or make answer for. It was written in a time of great distractions, and didst thou but know how oft this work hath dyed, and revived under my hand, thou wouldst wonder, that ever it came to thine.

The Synopsis praefixed to this Treatise, will shew you, that the method is wholly new, and the Treatise it self will satisfie you, that I have not boasted in another mans line; of things made ready to my hand: which I speak not in the least to win any praise to my self, from the undertakement; but to remove prejudices from it: for I see more defects in it, than most of my Readers will see; and can forethink more faults to be found in it, than I shall now stand to tell thee of, or make answer for. It was written in a time of great distractions, and didst thou but know how oft this work hath dyed, and revived under my hand, thou wouldst wonder, that ever it came to thine.