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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.
An evident argument of infidelity, how can you charge the wisdom of God of more folly, and lightness? God sends his word to his servants, that they might be reading, and hearing, and conferring of it; and that by believing they might believe: These men to cast an imputation of folly upon God, they are afraid that God did not consider the danger of it, if believers should fall a reading, and poor tradesmen a conferring about the Scriptures, they are afraid they will be distempered with heresy, and so trouble the whole Church; do not they by so doing set the wisdom of God at naught, and show themselves sacrilegious against the truth of God?
An evident argument of infidelity, how can you charge the wisdome of God of more folly, and lightnesse? God sends his word to his servants, that they might be reading, and hearing, and conferring of it; and that by beleeving they might beleeve: These men to cast an imputation of folly upon God, they are afraid that God did not consider the danger of it, if beleevers should fall a reading, and poore tradesmen a conferring about the Scriptures, they are afaid they will be distempered with heresie, and so trouble the whole Church; do not they by so doing set the wisdom of God at naught, and shew themselves sacrilegious against the truth of God?
Use 3. It may serve to exhort us all, since the holy ghost did write these things, to the intent that you that believe on the name of the Son of God might believe.
Ʋse 3. It may serve to exhort us all, since the holy ghost did write these things, to the intent that you that beleeve on the name of the Sonne of God might beleeve.
First, to you that believe, and then to you that believe not. You that have been diligent in hearing and reading the word, be diligent in it still, and make it a point of your Christian practise, not to fail to read some part of it every day, unless you be necessarily hindered, or if you have been necessarily hindered by business from reading, yet be sure nothing hinder you from meditating upon it, the blessed man meditates on Gods word every night, and every day, & though he takes the shorter time to it, yet he must have some time for meditation upon the word, upon something he heard this day, or something he hath sometimes read, and you shall find a mighty power in it to fructify, as if you were planted by the Rivers of waters,