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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.
A third effect of the life of sanctification,1 is growth, for that which lives, grows till it come to its full perfection, so in all natural,2 vegetative, or sensitive life; if it live, it grows, till it come to its full maturity, when it comes to its full vigour and strength, it may decay and stand at a stay; but a Christians life never comes to that, till it come to the life of glory, to the full measure of the stature of Christ: In this life we cannot come to that, but therefore it is that we grow to the end of our days, and then are forthwith translated to immortality, ye desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby, 1 Pet. 2.2. and 2 Pet. 3.18. grow in grace: and God hath given us Ministers to teach and instruct us, till we all grow to be perfect in Christ Jesus, Eph. 4.11, 12, 13. Col. 2.19. ⟨p. 139⟩Increase with the increasings of God, with divine and enlarged and spiritual increasing, so doth the body of Christ grow, and all the members of it: they grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ:
A third effect of the life of sanctification,1 is growth, for that which lives, growes till it come to its full perfection, so in all naturall,2 vegitative, or sensitive life; if it live, it growes, till it come to its full maturity, when it comes to its full vigour and strength, it may decay and stand at a stay; but a Christians life never comes to that, till it come to the life of glory, to the full measure of the stature of Christ: In this life we cannot come to that, but therefore it is that we grow to the end of our dayes, and then are forthwith translated to immortallity, ye desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,