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4. 14, Opened-
206
ved from
the
words,
to
give
Light unto
their
tendency
to
the
Confirmation
of
the
Truth
we have
under
confideration.
4.30
Firft,
the
Water
here Protnifed
by
our
Saviour,
is
the
Holy
and
Bleffed
Spirit: thisneeds no
labour to
demonftrate
The
Spirit himfelfe fo interprets
it,John
7.
38,39.
He who
believeth on
me,(faith
our
Saviour)as the
Scripture
faith
-rivers
of
living
Water
(hall
flowout
of
his
belly:But
this
he
fàidof
the Spirit,which
theyfhouldreceive,
who
believe on
him;
that
which in
one
place he calleth
a
well
of
Water
fprìnging
up
to
Life in
ses,
is
in
the other,in equivalent
terries,
called
Rivers
of
living
Water
, flowing out
of
our
bellies:
And
the Holy Ghotl
tells us,
that
he himfelfe,the
Blefhed
Spirit,
is Ggnified
by
that
expreflìon. Neither
is
there
any thing bellowed on
us,that
can
be
compared
to
afpring
of
water, a-
riling up, increafing,and flowing
out abundantly
upon
its
owne accdunt,but
the
Spirit only.
It
is
only
the
Spirit,
that
is a
fountaine
of
refref
iment, from
whence
all
Grace
Both
abundantly
flow.
It
is
(I
fay)
the
Spirit,
whereof
we
have been
fpeaking, who
is
procured
for us, and
bellowed
upon
us
by Jefus
Chrifl,
whiçh;as an everlafting
Fountaine , continually
fupplies
us
with re-
frelhing flreames
ofGrace, and
fills us
a
new therewith,
when
the
Channells
thereof
in
our
foules
are
ready
to
become -dry. And
Secondly,
the !late and
Condition
of
them, on whom
this living
Water
is
bellowed,
in
reference
thereunto,
is
defcribed,
Saith
our
Saviour, he
that
hath
this Spirit
ofGrace,
this
well
ofliving
Water,
!hall never
thirff.
-
It
is
moil
emphatically
exprefl by two Negatives, and
an Exegeticall
additional!
terme
for weight and
certainty.
x
si4
et,
he
(hall
river
thirft
to
eternity:
or
as
it
is
exprffed, John
6.
25.
a
he
(ball
never
thirii
at
any
time.
There
is
a
two
fold
third.
.
i.
There
is a
thirfhtotalis indigenti
e
of
a
whole and intire want,-
of
that
men
thirfl after:
and
this
is
the thiril,that
returnes
upon men
in
their naturali
lives: After they have allayed it once
with
naturall water,
they
thirfl
againe,
and their want
of
water
returnes
as
intire and full,
as
if
they had never
dranke
in
their
lives: Such
a
fpirituall
Thirfl cloth
God
afcribe
to
wicked
men
Ifa.
65.13.
My
fervants (ball
eat,
but
yak
'hall
be
hungry: my
fervants(ball
drinke, bat
ye
(ball
be7hirfly.
Their
hunger
and
thirl
is
the
totali want
of
Grace,
not that theydo
defire
it,
but that
they
have
it
not. And
this thirfl
of
totall
want
of
Grace,
is
that, that
never
(hall,
nor
can befall
them,
who have
received
the
Spirit
ofGrace,
as
a
Well
of
Water
in
them. They
can
never
fa
thirft,
as
to
be
returned
againe
into the Condition,
wherein they were, before
they dranke
of
that
Spirit.
2.
There
is
allo
a Thirfi
of
defier,
and
complacency
of
the
good Things
thirfted after. In
this fence
they are pronounced
Bleffed,who
hungerand7hirfl
rdadi.s.
after
Righteoufneffe.
And
Peter
inflru&ls
us
to
grow
in this Thirst
more
and
more, the
a
Pet.2:
2.
As
new
borne,
babes
*fire
the
fincere
mile
of
the
Word,
that
ye may grow thereby.
The
enjoyment
ofthe
Spirit
doth not
take
away
this Thirst,
but
begin
it,
and
increafe
it:
and by
this
i
birfl,
as
one
ineanes,
are
we
preferved from
that
total! want
8rc
indigency,which
(hall
never
againe
befall
us.
4.31,
Thirdly,our
Saviour
gives
the
reafon,why,and
whence
it is,that they,who
,
drinke
of
this
Water,
are made partakers
of
his
Spirit,
(hall
thirfl
no more,
or
never
be brought
to the
Condition
oftotall
want
of
Grace,
which
they were
in,before they received him: becaufe
the water
which
I'hallgive
them
(faith
he) the
Spirit,which
I
(hall
bellow upon them
,
dwelleth
in
them (as
we have
(hewed)
(hall
be a
well
of
Water,
a fountaine
ofGrace,
fpringing
up
in
them
to
everlafling Life,
continuing and
perpetuating the
Grace communicated,
unto
the
full
fruition
of
God
in
Glory.
There
are
-among
others) three
eminent
things