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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.
If there be any true life in the heart of a Christian soul, there is always some kind of warm breathing, there is some measures of warmth in his prayers; the prayers of an hypocrite ir always but lip-labour, and accordingly lust labour, the words vanish away in the air, but there is ever more or less some kind of warmth-in the prayers of Gods servants, according to what the Apostle speaks, Rom. 8.26. even then when we know not what to pray for, nor how to pray as we ought then the spirit helps our infirmities, that when we sometimes cannot bring out a word to God, the heart is full sometimes of anguish, and discouragement in respect of inward desertions, or temptations, and outward afflictions, but yet though in such a case we be not able to tell what to pray for, yet there is ever in a Christian soul something that makes him seek to God, and the very sighs of such a soul, come from ome warmeth of spirit within him. The scalding sighs and deep groans of the soul, they come from a spirit of life, and warmth in Christ Jesus: Therefore though it be true, there be many cold prayers, that Gods servants do put up, yet there is some kind of sighs and groans that springs from them, which argues some heat and life in them.
If there be any true life in the heart of a Christian soule, there is alwayes some kind of warm breathing, there is some measures of warmth in his prayers; the prayers of an hypocrite ir alwayes but lip-labour, and accordingly lust labor, the words vanish away in the aire, but there is ever more or lesse some kind of warmth-in the prayers of Gods servants, according to what the Apostle speakes, Rom. 8.26. even then when we know not what to pray for, nor how to pray as we ought then the spirit helpes our infirmities, that when we sometimes cannot bring out a word to God, the heart is ful sometimes of anguish, and discouragement in respect of inward desertions, or temptations, and outward afflictions, but yet though in such a case we be not able to tel what to pray for, yet there is ever in a Christian soule something that makes him seeke to God, and the very sighs of such a soule, come from ome warmeth of spirit within him. The scalding sighs and deep groanes of the soule, they come from a spirit of life, and warmth in Christ Jesus: Therefore though it be true, there be many cold prayers, that Gods servants do put up, yet there is some kind of sighs and groans that springs from them, which argues some heat and life in them.