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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.
Now a little better to understand this point, that you may conceive what this worship of Christ is; you are to conceive that worship is performed to Christ, in mind, in heart, in life, both in our obedience that we perform, in our life, in suffering, and patience which we yield to God in our lives, by all this we worship Christ, and so have him.
Now a little better to understand this point, that you may conceive what this worship of Christ is; you are to conceive that worship is performed to Christ, in minde, in heart, in life, both in our obedience that wee performe, in our life, in suffering, and patience which wee yeeld to God in our lives, by all this we worship Christ, and so have him.
1First, in our minds, we then indeed worship Christ, when we have him in high estimation. The worship, and honour that we owe to Christ, is to have him in high esteem, Cant. 5 10. She, the Spouse there may well call him her beloved, Christ is my Christ, when he is to me the chiefest of ten thousand, Psal. 89.6. Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord. And Exod. 15.11. Who is a God like unto thee: When the soul of a man doth esteem of Christ above all other things in the world, when there is nothing that the soul so prizes as the Lord Jesus Christ, then the soul hath him; and herein lies the difference between spiritual & earthly things, you have an high esteem of an earthly thing, and yet have it not; a man may highly prize a good bargain, and yet have it not: but no man sets an high price upon Christ, but he that hath him; spiritual things we wholly neglect, until ⟨p. 7⟩we have them, and when we have them, then there oisn-thing with us comparable to them, until a man have his portion in the word of God, it is but a thing of small value to him, and so the Spirit of Gods grace, and the blood of Christ until a man have it; it is but a light vain thing to him; yea till he have the Lord Jesus himself, no spiritual thing is of any value with him; but so soon as ever the heart begins to prize Jesus Christ, as the chiefest of all the blessings that ever God bestowed upon the sons of men; and if the soul think,