The Fountain of Life Opened

I must be plain with you; I beseech you consider, how Jews, Pagans and Devils will rise up in Judgement against you. The Jew may say, I had a legal yoke upon me, which neither I, nor my fathers were able to bear. Christ invited me only into the garden of nuts, where I might sooner break my teeth with the ⟨p. 232⟩hard shells of Ceremonies, than get the kernel of Gospel-promises.— In the best of our Sacrifices, the smoke filled our Temple: smoke, only to provoke us to weep for a clearer manifestation.— We had but the old edition of the Covenant of grace, in a character very darkly intelligible; you have the last edition, with a Commentary of our rejection, and the worlds reception, and the spirits effusion. You had all that heart could wish.— I perish eternally may the poor Pagan say, without all possibility of reconciliation; and have only sinned against the Covenant of works; having never heard of a Gospel Covenant, nor of reconciliation by a Mediator. O had I heard but one Sermon! had Christ but once broke in upon my soul, to convince me of my undone condition, and to have shown a righteousness to me▪ but woe is me, I never had so much as one offer of Christ. But so have I, must you say, that refuse the Gospel. I have, or might have heard thousands of Sermons: I could scarce escape hearing one or other showing me the danger of my sin, and my necessity of Christ; but notwithstanding all I heard, I wilfully resolved I would have nothing to do with him.

I must be plain with you; I beseech you consider, how Iews, Pagans and Devils will rise up in Judgement against you. The Iew may say, I had a legal yoak upon me, which neither I, nor my fathers were able to bear. Christ invited me only into the garden of nuts, where I might sooner break my teeth with the ⟨p. 232⟩hard shells of Ceremonies, than get the kernel of Gospel-promises.— In the best of our Sacrifices, the smoak filled our Temple: smoak, only to provoke us to weep for a clearer manifestation.— We had but the old edition of the Covenant of grace, in a character very darkly intelligible; you have the last edition, with a Commentary of our rejection, and the worlds reception, and the spirits effusion. You had all that heart could wish.— I perish eternally may the poor Pagan say, without all possibility of reconciliation; and have only sinned against the Covenant of works; having never heard of a Gospel Covenant, nor of reconciliation by a Mediator. O had I heard but one Sermon! had Christ but once broke in upon my soul, to convince me of my undone condition, and to have shewn a righteousness to me but wo is me, I never had so much as one offer of Christ. But so have I, must you say, that refuse the Gospel. I have, or might have heard thousands of Sermons: I could scarce escape hearing one or other shewing me the danger of my sin, and my necessity of Christ; but notwithstanding all I heard, I wilfully resolved I would have nothing to do with him.