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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.
Thirdly, A spirit of prayer.
These three the Holy Ghost takes special notice of in this case.
First, The spirit of God, wheresoever it is shed abroad in any member of Christ, it doth make us one with the Lord Jesus, it unites us into one fellowship of nature, a likeness in affection and disposition, and a likeness in all the graces of God, as John 17.21. our Saviour prays the Father, that all those whom he had given him might be one with him, as thou and I art one: thou in me by thy spirit, and I in thee, by the same spirit; and this spirit is such as makes not only me, one with thee, but them also, one with me; and they also in like sort, one with another; it makes us and Christ us it were one: Hence it is, that as soon as we receive him, we of his fullness receive grace for grace, Joh. 1.16. There is a conformity between Christ and us; one and the same Image stamped upon us both, Rom. 8.29. a like in grace, a like in affection, and in continuance of affection, a like in every thing.
First, The spirit of God, wheresoever it is shed abroad in any member of Christ, it doth make us one with the Lord Jesus, it unites us into one fellowship of nature, a likenesse in affection and disposition, and a likenesse in all the graces of God, as John 17.21. our Saviour prayes the Father, that all those whom he had given him might bee one with him, as thou and I art one: thou in me by thy spirit, and I in thee, by the same spirit; and this spirit is such as makes not onely mee, one with thee, but them also, one with mee; and they also in like sort, one with another; it makes us and Christ us it were one: Hence it is, that as soone as we receive him, we of his fullnesse receive grace for grace,