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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.
First, Easy to be pleased, 1 Pet. 3.18. any thing that you do about them, is pleasing to them, that is point of gentleness; and a gracious man in whom is the life and power of godliness, he is easy to be pleased. If you go about any thing, with any tolerable endeavour to give him content, he is not hard to be pleased; and if not easy to please, there is little grace; or dangerous to be none at all, if you have much a do to bow or bend them to comply with them that asketh and thing of them, there is a dead heart in such a spirit.
First, Easie to be pleased, 1 Pet. 3.18. any thing that you doe about them, is pleasing to them, that is poynt of gentlenesse; and a gracious man in whom is the life and power of godlinesse, he is easie to be pleased. If you go about any thing, with any tollerable indeavour to give him content, he is not hard to be pleased; and if not easie to please, there is little grace; or dangerous to be none at all, if you have much a do to bow or bend them to comply with them that asketh and thing of them, there is a dead heart in such a spirit.
Secondly, A man that is easy to be entreated and gentle, if he be offended he is easy to be entreated, Rom. 1.31. It is a sign a man is of a reprobate sense, when he is implacable and ⟨p. 159⟩stiff; when life is gone, a man is stiff, not easy to be entreated.
Secondly, A man that is easie to be intreated and gentle, if he be offended he is easie to be intreated, Rom. 1.31. It is a signe a man is of a reprobate sence, when hee is implacable and ⟨p. 159⟩