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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.
Because in Scripture phrase, there are more ways of having Christ requisite for the knowledge of every soul, I thought it therefore not amiss to open those other ways by which in Scripture we are said to have Christ.
BEcause in Scripture phrase, there are more wayes of having Christ requisite for the knowledge of every soul, I thought it therefore not amisse to open those other wayes by which in Scripture we are said to have Christ.
Secondly, as therefore we have him first by worshipping of him, so secondly we have him by purchase; this way of having Christ is expressed to us partly in the parable of the Merchant man, Matth. 13.46. Who when he had found a pearl of precious price, he sold all that he had and bought it, that is one way of having Christ, to purchase him, to buy him: you have the like also held out in Esa. 55.1.2. every one that is a thirst, come and buy without money or without price, wherein the Holy Ghost calleth upon us to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as revealed in his ordinances, and he makes a solemn proclamation to all, to come to these waters and buy without money. Without money, why without money? or how without money? It is true, should a man offer his house full of Treasure for Christ, it would be despised Cant. 8.7. and when Simon Magus offered to buy the gifts of the Holy Ghost for money, it was rejected with a curse Act. 9.8, 9, 10, and if the gift of the Holy Ghost cannot be bought for money, how can the Lord Jesus Christ be bought for money?
Secondly, as therefore we have him first by worshiping of him, so secondly we have him by purchase; this way of having Christ is expressed to us partly in the parable of the Merchant man,