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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.
Secondly, consider if you have Christ, you have life, and that in abundance, and you have all the blessings of God, of all lives it is the most comfortable, 2 Cor. 1.20. If you have Christ, you have all the promises, For in him they are, yea, and in him Amen; and they shall all be ratified and confirmed, and established to you, and all the blessings of God are thine, Esa. 1.3. He hath blest you with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus; all blessings both spiritual and temporal too, all the blessings of this and another life, 1 Tim. 4.8. 1 Cor. 3. last. All is yours; all the ordinances of God is yours, and all the world is yours; not a creature in the world but is at your service: yea your enemies is for your good and service. Esau was Jacobs Servant even then when he calls him Lord; and therefore make account of this, if you have ⟨p. 173⟩Christ, make account of this, you have all things; and therefore read the Promises, and gather them up, and lay them up as a treasure, all things are yours; all the blessings you read or hear of, they are all some way or other for your benefit, and I want but faith to see and discern it, and an heart to acknowledge it, if I do feel it; and therefore if you want righteousness, or peace, or goods, or friends, or any blessing in this world, or for another, if you have Christ you have all that his is; He that hath given us his own Son, will not he with him give us all things also? Rom. 8.32. So that there is a double motive, that every soul might be stirred up to look after Christ; and this is the season, stay not till to morrow, and though the morrow be a Sabbath, a blessed day, yet you know not what this day may bring forth; some of us may fall sick, or dye this night, or not fit to profit by to morrows means, as it is this day, and therefore while the day of grace lasts, take hold of Christ.
Secondly, consider if you have Christ, you have life, and that in abundance, and you have all the blessings of God, of all lives it is the most comfortable,