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which he has received will be in him as a well of water spring- ing up into everlasting lifei." I may appeal to all, whether the most copious draughts of carnal pleasure ever satisfied? Solomon, who drank as deep of it as a human being could do, pronounced it all to be vanity and vexation of spirit. " The eye was never yet satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hear- ing." But he who has obtained the knowledge of Christ, and drunk deep of the promises of the Gospel, has no longer any relish for earthly vanities, nor any desire after them. Give him all the world, and he feels empty : give him the presence of God, and he desires no more.]
Address —
1. Those who are going to broken cisterns —
[What is the creature but " a broken cistern that can
hold no water ?" And will you for this forsake " the
fountain of living waters'^?" Let me prevail on every one of you to go to God as your reconciled God in Christ Jesus, and to say with David, " All my fresh springs are in thee^]
2. Those vi^ho are drinking from " the fountain of life*"—
[Say whether you have not " a joy with which the stranger intermeddleth not ? " Say whether the fountains do not richly supply you ; and whether, even on the highest places, which, according to hviman apprehension, are inaccessible to rivers, the rivers do not follow you " ? Yes, till you arrive at heaven itself, the streams shall never fail ; and even there shall they run beside you for your comfort to eternal ages''.]
1 John iv. 13, 14. Isai. xHx. 9, 10. ^ Jer. ii. 13.
s Ps. Ixxxvii. 7. t Ps, xxxvi. 9. " Isai. xli. 17, 18.
^- Rev. vii. 17.