The Fountain of Life Opened

Hence you that are yet in darkness, ¹may be directed to whom to apply your selves, for saving knowledge. It's Christ that hath the sovereign eye salve;² that can cure your blindness. He only hath the key of the house of David, he openeth and no man shutteth. O that I might persuade you to set your selves in his way, under the ordinances, and cry to him, Lord, that my eyes may be opened. Three things are marvellously encouraging to you so to do.

Hence you that are yet in darkness, ¹may be directed to whom to apply your selves, for saving knowledge. It's Christ that hath the soveraign eye salve;² that can cure your blindness. He only hath the key of the house of David, he openeth and no man shutteth. O that I might perswade you to set your selves in his way, under the ordinances, and cry to him, Lord, that my eyes may be opened. Three things are marvelously incouraging to you so to do.

1. 1Infer. 3.
2. 2So thick is that cataract which is grown over the eye of our understanding that none but God can couch it. Christ was sent to be a light to the Gentiles: so he enlightens the medium; and to open the eyes of the blind. So he heals the Organ: He is the only Oculist. Firmins Real Christian. p. 30.

First, God the Father hath put him into this Office, for the cure of such as you be. Isa. 49.6. I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the ends of the earth. This may furnish you with an argument to plead for a cure. Why do you not go to God, and say, Lord, didst thou give Jesus Christ a Commission to open the blind eyes? Behold me Lord, such a one am I, a poor, dark, ignorant soul. Didst thou give him to be thy salvation to the ends of the earth? No place, nor people excluded from the benefit of this light; and shall I still remain in the shadow of death? O that unto me he might