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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 when Jonah was cast out, the most unruly Creature, a Whale, meets with this unruly Prophet of God, and swallowed him up, that he thought himself in the belly of Hell. Now when God had in some measure broken his heart, and in the Whales belly begins to consider how unrulily he had dealt with God, and said, Chap. 4. he said, I am cast out of thy sight, yet will I look again towards thy holy temple; Implying, that though he had been most unruly, and of a good man, the most of all you read of; yet when he saw God for his unruliness meet him with such afflictions, yet when he said, he was cast out of his sight: yet, I will look again towards thy holy temple. How could he tell which way the Temple stood when he was in the Whales belly? yet his heart was towards the Temple, which was a type of Christ; he in his heart had respect to the place where the Temple stood, and therein he showed his respect to Christ, and so having respect unto him, he had him as his Saviour, most unruly Jonah; yet he having respect to Christ as his Saviour, he is delivered and saved; so that you see, he that hath Christ as a Son, he hath him as a Saviour; and those that have him for a Saviour, they wait on him, and only look for salvation from him.
and when Ionah was cast out, the most unruly Creature, a Whale, meets with this unruly Prophet of God, and swallowed him up, that he thought himselfe in the belly of Hell. Now when God had in some measure broken his heart, and in the Whales belly begins to consider how unrulily he had dealt with God, and said, Chap. 4. he said, I am cast out of thy sight, yet will I looke againe towards thy holy temple; Implying, that though he had been most unruly, and of a good man, the most of all you read of; yet when he saw God for his unrulinesse meet him with such affictions, yet when he said, he was cast out of his sight: yet, I will looke again towards thy holy temple. How could he tell which way the Temple stood when he was in the Whales belly? yet his heart was towards the Temple, which was a type of Christ; he in his heart had respect to the place where the Temple stood, and therein he shewed his respect to Christ, and so having respect unto him, he had him as his Saviour, most unruly Ionah; yet he having respect to Christ as his Saviour, he is delivered and saved; so that you see, he that hath Christ as a Sonne, he hath him as a Saviour; aad those that have him for a Saviour, they waite on him, and only look for salvation from him.