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Christ the fountain of lifeChrist the fountaine of life
Christ the fountain of life: or, Sundry choice sermons on part of the fifth chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.Christ the fountaine of life: or, Sundry choyce sermons on part of the fift chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson, 1651
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.
Reas. Christ must so be had, and we must so receive him as God gives him; now God gives us first Christ in all his Ordinances, and then in Christ all other things, all benefits in and through Christ, Act. 8.35. We preach to you Jesus; we offer you him, all lusts laid aside, all sinful corruptions put away, whatever separates between God and us, ⟨p. 51⟩that being done away: We now offer you Christ, and in Christ plenteous redemption; but if we be without Christ, we are without true life.
Reas. Christ must so be had, and we must so receive him as God gives him; now God gives us first Christ in all his Ordinances, and then in Christ all other things, all benefits in and through Christ, Act. 8.35. We preach to you Jesus; we offer you him, all lusts layed aside, all sinfull corruptions put away, whatever separates between God and us, ⟨p. 51⟩that being done away: We now offer you Christ, and in Christ plentious redemption; but if we be without Christ, we are without true life.
As in the Sacrament, first you have the body and blood of Christ set before you, Matth. 26.26. and then sealed up, and confirmed to you in the Sacrament, and together with that justification, and further degrees of the sanctifying spirit, and further pledges of everlasting life, and glory; No benefit, but its conveyed through him; Christ first, and then the benefit. It is true, Herod received joy, but Felix trembling, and Jehu zeal, but none of these received Christ; they received the husk, but wanted Christ; they had the shell, but not the marrow and kernel within; they received the benefit, but Christ they did not receive, and for want of him they had no life at all. Simon Magus he believed,