Sermons on the following subjects .. . SERMON IX. Of the Difficulty of arriving atTruth. St J OH. iv. II, Tbe Woman faith unto him; Sir^ Thou hajlnothing to draw with; and the Well isdeep. From whence then haji thou thatliving Water ?. ^pjl HE former part of this Chap- S e r m,ter contains a very remark- Hiftory of our Saviours ^^^V\lConverfation with a Womanof Samaria. The accidental occajion whereof, as to humane appear-ance. 186 Of the Dificulty of , was, his retiring out of Judc^a^ toI^- avoid the hatred of the Pharifee$\ leaft ^-^^^^^^ they fliould apprehend and kill him
Sermons on the following subjects .. . SERMON IX. Of the Difficulty of arriving atTruth. St J OH. iv. II, Tbe Woman faith unto him; Sir^ Thou hajlnothing to draw with; and the Well isdeep. From whence then haji thou thatliving Water ?. ^pjl HE former part of this Chap- S e r m,ter contains a very remark- Hiftory of our Saviours ^^^V\lConverfation with a Womanof Samaria. The accidental occajion whereof, as to humane appear-ance. 186 Of the Dificulty of , was, his retiring out of Judc^a^ toI^- avoid the hatred of the Pharifee$\ leaft ^-^^^^^^ they fliould apprehend and kill him be-fore his appointed Time : But in reahty,the gracious Inte72tion of Providence indifpofing That feemingly accidental Oc-caficn, was, that the Gofpel might bepreached to the Samaritans alfo, as wellas to the Jews. And as, upon ether oc-cafions^ our Saviour ufually introduced hisDo<5lrine under the veil of a Parable, thathe might open it by degrees as men wereable and difpofed to apprehend it, andnot furprize them with more Light atonce than they were able to bear ; fo herelikewife he took occafion from things thatfeemed to offer themfelves in commonDifcourfe, to inftru6l firft the Woman,and afterwards a whole City, in the g
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