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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.
And you are hereby (I mean by the spirit) not only called to these Offices, but enabled to discharge them: For that is the difference, between a Christian in heart, and a Christian in appearance, fall short of ability to perform these Offices.
And you are hereby (I meane by the spirit) not onely called to these Offices, but inabled to discharge them: For that is the difference, between a Christian in heart, and a Christian in appearance, fall short of ability to performe these Offices.
And as there is this conformity to the Nature and Offices of Christ in them that have the Son; So Thirdly,1 there is a conformity in their Estates, you know Christ waded through an Estate of humiliation, and exaltation: These be the main Principles of Religion; that look as it was with Christs estate, it was sometime, the time wherein he was humbled in this world, all the course of his life was a time of humiliation, and that unto the very death, or else his state of exaltation in heaven: that then when he was most mortified, then was he most glorified, triumphing openly and mightily, showing forth himself to be the Son of God, even then when in mans sight, he was separated from God, & banished from the Church, so as that all men cried, away with him, crucify him, and all his own Disciples forsook him, and not a soul acknowledged him, but one poor thief upon the cross with him; yet even then was he so gloriously magnified, as that well might the Apostle say, he triumphed openly upon the cross, having therein made a spoil of Principalities and Powers, Col. 2.15. Now this very estate is the estate of every child of God; and so far as he hath the Son, so far doth he express this estate in his whole conversation, (for an estate of humiliation) great and many be the afflictions of the righteous, Psalm. 34.18, 19. there is their debasement in the world; but the Lord delivereth them out of all, there is their exaltation mixed together; many ways humbled, and exalted deliverances,