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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.
Act. 3 Thirdly, Another act of faith, and that is for a man to come truly cleaving to the Lord Jesus Christ, not to stand upon demurs, and disputes, whether we had best cleave to God, and whether we had best do such or such things, and so be almost Christians; for if we so come, we cannot receive any thing at the hands of God, Jam. 1.5, 6, 7, 8. A wavering minded man is unstable, &c. This is one, and a principal part of the meaning of it; he speaks of such a kind of wavering faith, as whereby a man is [Greek or Hebrew] a heart, and an heart; he hath a mind to draw near to Christ, and to become a servant of Christ, and yet withal a mind to be hankering after some sinful lust or other which takes up his mind, and which his soul lusteth after; and therefore he is unstable in all his ways; sometimes he is for God, and sometimes for himself, ever halting between God and the World; but let such men think they shall not receive any thing at the hands of God, this should have been in the second place.
Act. 3 Thirdly, Another act of faith, and that is for a man to come truly cleaving to the Lord Jesus Christ, not to stand upon demurs, and disputes, whether we had best cleave to God, and whether we had best doe such or such things, and so be almost Christians; for if we so come, we cannot receive any thing at the hands of God, Iam. 1.5, 6, 7, 8. A wavering minded man is unstable, &c. This is one, and a principall part of the meaning of it; he speakes of such a kinde of wavering faith, as whereby a man is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a heart, and an heart; he hath a minde to draw near to Christ, and to become a servant of Christ, and yet withal a mind to be hankering after some sinfull lust or other which takes up his minde, and which his soule lusteth after; and therefore he is unstable in all his wayes; sometimes he is for God, and sometimes for himselfe, ever halting between God and the World; but let such men thinke they shall not receive any thing at the hands of God, this should have been in the second place.