Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

AGAIN, As it is as the Morning Light, than which nothing hath a more assured Progress; so it is called by our Saviour Living water, Joh. 4. 10. yea, a Well of water, springing up unto Everlasting Life, ver. 14. It is an indeficient Spring, not a Pool or Pond, though never so large, which may be dried up. Many such Pools of Light, Gifts, and Profession, have we seen utterly dried up, when they have come into Age, or been ensnared by the Temptations of the World. And we may see others every day under dangerous decays; their Countenances are changed, and they have lost that Oil which makes the face of a Believer to shine, namely, the Oil of Love, Meekness, Self-denial, and Spirituality of Converse; and instead thereof there is spread upon them the fulsome Ointment of Pride, Self-love, Earthly-mindedness, which increaseth on them more and more. But where this Principle of Spiritual Life is, it is as the Morning Light, as an indeficient Spring that never fails, nor can do so, until it issue in Eternal Life: and sundry other ways there are whereby the same Truth is asserted in the Scripture.

AGAIN, As it is as the Morning Light, than which nothing hath a more assured Progress; so it is called by our Saviour Living water, Joh. 4. 10. yea, a Well of water, springing up unto Everlasting Life, ver. 14. It is an indeficient Spring, not a Pool or Pond, though never so large, which may be dryed up. Many such Pools of Light, Gifts, and Profession, have we seen utterly dryed up, when they have come into Age, or been ensnared by the Temptations of the World. And we may see others every day under dangerous decays; their Countenances are changed, and they have lost that Oyl which makes the face of a Believer to shine, namely, the Oyl of Love, Meekness, Self-denial, and Spirituality of Converse; and instead thereof there is spread upon them the falsome Oyntment of Pride, Self-love, Earthly-mindedness, which increaseth on them more and more. But where this Principle of Spiritual Life is, it is as the Morning Light, as an indeficient Spring that never fails, nor can do so, untill it issue in Eternal Life: and sundry other ways there are whereby the same Truth is asserted in the Scripture.