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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.
Reas. The reason of this confidence springs from the promises, and the discerning of them clearly to belong to us, now all these things discover to us many promises, confidence springs partly from Gods nature, and partly from Gods promise, and partly also from our own experience, and these are the staff of our confidence; and from hence it is that we grow to see many promises belong to us, we ⟨p. 236⟩see the nature of God become fatherly to us, and we from hence in time gather many experiences of Gods acceptance of us, and this strengthens our confidence in his hearing of our petitions. Our Adoption assures us of Gods nature to be ours, whereby God takes us to be his Children, and he is one that is full of grace and goodness, nothing is wanting on his part; he is a Father to us, and that is a great matter.
Reas. The reason of this confidence springs from the promises, and the discerning of them clearly to belong to us, now all these things discover to us many promises, confidence springs partly from Gods nature, and partly from Gods promise, and partly also from our owne experience, and these are the staffe of our confidence; and from hence it is that we grow to see many promises belong to us, we ⟨p. 236⟩see the nature of God become fatherly to us, and we from hence in time gather many experiences of Gods acceptance of us, and this strengthens our confidence in his hearing of our petitions. Our Adoption assures us of Gods nature to be ours, whereby God takes us to be his Children, and he is one that is full of grace and goodnesse, nothing is wanting on his part; he is a Father to us, and that is a great matter.
And in regard that Christ is our Advocate and Atonement, he brings all the promises to us, which in Christ are all, yea and amen, 2 Cor. 1, 20. And this holy Spirit of God gives us experience of all that goodness that is in God, and the truth in his promises, yea and it gives us experience in this also; that he that hath given us his own Son, will not be give us all things else?