Whosoever hath to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance. Matthew 13:12. For, the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. John 4:14.
Of the remarkable increase of the kingdom of God, even from the least beginning, see also. Matthew 13:31-33; and that beautiful figure, Ezekiel 47:1-12. This well, therefore being once opened to you, it is highly necessary to draw evermore the living water out of it by prayers, since it runs freely then. But if you begin to be slothful and distracted, not abiding closely in Christ, by true watchfulness, as in the presence of God, your spirit will soon be dried up. Afterwards you will hardly be able with the most anxious groans, to draw as it were one single drop out of the deep of this fountain.
O Lord! grant that I may uninterruptedly remain in thee and in thy presence, and always live in thy communion, as the fish in the water.
Cheerful I feast on heavenly fruit,
And drink the pleasures down,
Pleasures that flow hard by the foot
Of the eternal throne.
But ah! how soon my joys decay,
How soon my sins arise,
And snatch the heavenly scene away
From these lamenting eyes!
When shall the time, dear Jesus, when
The shining day appear,
That I shall leave those clouds of sin,
And guilt, and darkness here?