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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.
Object. But you say, I shall be more busy, then I shall have thank for my labour, I may be worse, and they never the better?
Object. But you say, I shall be more busie, then I shall have thanke for my labour, I may bee worse, and they never the better?
Answ. It may be they will be the worse for the while, and never the better, but he that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find more favour, then he that flattereth with his tongue, Prov, 28.23. A man must sow this seed in patience. It may be a winter will follow upon it, but at length he shall find the fruits of his labours; even as the Husband-man waiteth with long patience, till the season and time of harvest, yield him a comfortable increase, he that deals plainly with his neighbour, shall find more favour at the length then he that flatters him; If you loose his favour, it is but for a season, and if a man in this case have been more busy then for the present he gets ⟨p. 249⟩thanks for, yet God will bless it, and recompense it, and God will not let such a man go without finding favour with himself, how ever he may from others.
Answ. It may be they will be the worse for the while, and never the better, but he that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find more favour, then he that flattereth with his tongue, Prov, 28.23. A man must sow this seed in patience. It may be a winter wil follow upon it, but at length he shall find the fruits of his labours; even as the Husband-man waiteth with long patience, til the season and time of harvest, yeeld him a comfortable increase, he that deales plainly with his neighbour, shall find more favor at the length then he that flatters him; If you loose his favour, it is but for a season, and if a man in this case have been more busie then for the present he gets ⟨p. 249⟩thankes for, yet God will blesse it, and recompence it, and God wil not let such a man go without finding favour with himselfe, how ever he may from others.