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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.
1First, as ever thou wouldest have Christ, labour wisely to ponder upon and consider, how dead thou art without Christ, for thou shalt never find life by Christ, unless thou find thy self lost without him, Luke 10.10. Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost. If thou seest thy self lost, Christ will seek thee up; be fully satisfied of this in thy judgement and mind, that unless thou hast Christ, thou hast no life, and therefore mourn and pray, The whole need not the Physician but them that are sick, Matth. 9.12, 13. See thy self a sinner and a perishing creature unless Christ seek thee up.
1First, as ever thou wouldest have Christ, labour wisely to ponder upon and consider, how dead thou art without Christ, for thou shalt never find life by Christ, unlesse thou find thy selfe lost without him, Luke 10.10. Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost. If thou seest thy self lost, Christ will seek thee up; be fully satisfied of this in thy judgement and mind, that unlesse thou hast Christ, thou hast no life, and therefore mourn and pray, The whole need not the Physitian but them that are sicke, Matth. 9.12, 13. See thy selfe a sinner and a perishing creature unlesse Christ seeke thee up.
- 1Means of having Christ.
Secondly, Take this means, as ever you desire to have life in Christ, if thou knowest any sin by thy self, thou art much to blame in thy self, if thou dost not by any means wash thy hands of it,