CHRIST METAPHOR. adorn a Place, and make it much more pleafant and de!irable. Hence Fountains, or Pools of Water, Solo– mon reckons up as one of the De– lights of the Sons of Men, Eccl. ii. 6. XI. Fountains are Places good to wafh and bathe in, and have been made ufe of in former Times upon that account. ;xn. Fountains do not fend out fweet Water and bitter, nor frefh and fait; that which is good, and bad proceed not from, the fame Fountain, 'James iii. 1 2 . XIII. Fountains are fuf!icient to fill many great and fmallVeffels; thofe that go thither may tak<l what they need, yea, fill their Veffels to the Brim, and not diminifi1 of its Fulnefs, XIV. A Fountain is conll:ant ir1 its Emanations, or continual Run– nings and Flowings forth. XV. Many in former Times llfeci to drink out of their Foun– tains. XVI. Fountains have Springs in themfelves, faith an emi_nent Writer, and can never be emptied. Streams may be dried up, Cif– terns may be broken, and let the Water run out; but the Water in a Fountain, abides the fame, and is_Iajting. F 0 UN TA I N. ~. FOUNTAINS are beholden to fame other Thing (as the Sea, Springs, and Vapors) for their Waters are not from them– telves. I!. Fountains only contain earth– ly and elementary Water. Ill. Other Fountains cannot heal Dill:empers or Difeafes of the Soul; but few have that Virtue in them as to heal the Body. IV. Fountains cannot.give Life, though they may help to preferve and maintain it. V. He that d~nks of the Water ofother Fountains may thiril: again. A F 0 UN TA I N. Book II. PARALLEL. tain, or Fountain of the Gardens, as Mr. Ainfworth reads it, Cant. iv. 15. The Church is a Garden, Chrill: is the Fountain that waters it; and how pleafant is a Fountain in a Garden! At his Right– hand there arePleafures for evermore, Pfal.xvi. 1 I. And thou jhalt make them drink of the Waters of thy Pleafitre, Pfal. xxxvi. 8, 9· XI, Chril1: is the Soul's only Bath; in this Foun– tain Sinners rnufl wafh, if ever they would be clean: It is his Blood that c/eanfes us from all Silz, I 'John i.7. Hence he is faid to be aFountain open– edfor Sin andfor Undeannefs, Zech. xiii. I. X II. There is nothing unfavory in Chrill:, no– thing bitter nor brackrfh in him ; whatfoever flows from this Fountain is fwcet and good; every Drop of this Water is as fweet as Honey. XIII. Chrifl is able and fufficient to fill and fa– tisfy all the HeartS and Souls of Men and Wo– men that come unto him. Believers may have here what they really want, and yet diminifh not from Chrill:'s Fulnefs. XIV. Jefus Chrifl, the heavenly Fountain, hath never ceafed running from the Beginning of the World; his Goodnefs always Sows forth, from one Generation to another. XV. If any Mm< (faith Chrill:) /u thirfty, let him come unto me, and drink, 'John vii. 37. XVI. The Riches and Treafures of Chrill: are inexhaull:ible. He is always full: He has Springs in himfelf, and can never be emptied, nor dried up. As for ~antity, fo for ~ality, this Faun. tain is ever the fame, never lofes its lively Virtue and Efficacy ; the Waters that flow from hence, have the fame Operation that ever they had. D IS PAR IT Y. r. JESUS Chril1 is God, and as fo con!idered hath all Fulnefs originally and indepen– dently in himfelf, being Superintendant over all Creatures, he that made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and Fountains of Water. ll. Chrifl is a Fountain that contains fpiritual Water, of a moll: divine and fublirne Nature. Ill. J.efus ChriO: is the Fountain that heals all Difeafes, both of Body and Soul. It is opened for Sin, and U ncleannefs, of the inward Man more efpecially. IV. Chrilt criveth Life eo Men, yea, a threefold Life: x. Na~ural Life. 2. Spiritual Life. 3· Eternal Life. He raifes from the Dead, and quickens whom he will; hence called our Life, Col. iii. 34· V. But he that drinketh of the Water that flows from Chrill:, this living Fountain, Jhall thirft no more, 'John iv. I4· " ~ What is meant by thirjling no m~re, ia op~ned elfewhcre.- 2 YI. Chrifl
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