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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.
Fourthly, There is this mixture of affection, in our carriage towards men, which argues the life of holiness in us;1 In our conversing with men, you shall have the same heart full of much patience, but without all forbearance. And those are such as are not found in nature, nor in an hypocrite, yet in a Christian heart you shall find them together the more patient a man is towards others, yet the less able is he to bear with evil, read Revel. 2.2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: A man would think it were a very strange expression.
Fourthly, There is this mixture of affection, in our carriage towards men, which argues the life of holinesse in us;1 In our converseing with men, you shal have the same heart full of much patience, but without all forbearance. And those are such as are not found in nature, nor in an hypocrite, yet in a Christian heart you shall find them together the more patient a man is towards others, yet the lesse able is he to bear with evill, read Revel. 2.2. I know thy workes, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not beare them which are evill: A man would think it were a very strange expression.
- 1Patience without forbearance.
A man of known and proved patience, and yet cannot bear: For what is patience, but bearing and forbearing? yet saith God, I know thy patience, and that thou canst not bear them that are evil; implying that such a soul, if it were a matter to be put upon himself, any affliction or trial put upon himself, then I know thy patience in bearing of it, but if it come to a matter of evil, not of punishment, but of sin, then I know thou cannest not bear it.