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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.
Thirdly,1 There is a certain kind of warmth, by which the soul doth not only affect the Ordinances of God, but by which it doth in some measure digest them; there is no living man wanting some such measure of heat as makes him able to digest some kind of diet, though not always strong meat, especially, if he be in any measure of health, and that is no small measure of heat, Psal. 119.20. the very longing desire, it always hath to Gods Judgements, was it that even made his soul to break within him, and so to pant after Gods Word, and his presence in his Ordinances, Psalm. 42.1. there was a kind of panting, and longing, and eager desire after God, by which it comes to pass that the soul of a Christian closes with God in his Ordinances, and turns them into nourishment within himself, and so is more strongly, and inwardly bent towards God in the ways of his grace, whereas a dead spirit is flat, and hath no affection to the word, no affection to Gods presence, no list to the things of this nature.
Thirdly,1 There is a certaine kind of warmth, by which the soule doth not only affect the Ordinances of God, but by which it doth in some measure digest them; there is no living man wanting some such measure of heat as makes him able to digest some kind of dyet, though not alwayes strong meate, especially, if he be in any measure of health, and that is no small measure of heate, Psal. 119.20. the very longing desire, it alwayes hath to Gods Judgements, was it that even made his soule to breake within him, and so to pant after Gods Word, and his presence in his Ordinances, Psalm. 42.1. there was a kind of panting, and longing, and eager desire after God, by which it comes to passe that the soule of a Christian closes with God in his Ordinances, and turnes them into nourishment within himselfe, and so is more strongly, and inwardly bent towards God in the ways of his grace, whereas a dead spirit is flat, and hath no affection to the word, no affection to Gods presence, no list to the things of this nature.