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The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful…The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull…
The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful men wherein also is proved that there shall be a national calling of the Jews from Zech. XIII. I. / by Samuel Willard ...The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull men wherein also is proved that there shall be a national calling of the Jews from Zech. XIII. I. / by Samuel Willard ...
printed by B. Green for Samuel Sewall Junior, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
DOCTRINE III. They are the Seed of Christ, and the Church of God, for whose sakes this fountain is opened.
THE Subjects of this privilege are th• House of David, and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem. These are Typical Expressions, and there is a spiritual meaning that is to be sought in them, though the literal meaning is not to be excluded; and here is a double Type, tho the thing aimed at in it is one and the same How far this shall be literally accomplished in both the parts of it, when the Nation o• the Jews shall be Converted to the Christian Religion, I shall not enquire now, but confine my present discourse to the Mystical and Spiritual meaning of it. David was a Type of Christ; and in how many things Christ was represented by him, would be too great a digression now to enquire: but it is certain, that by a frequent Scripture Metonymy, Christ the Antitype, is called by the name of David the Type, Jer 30. 9. They shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King, whom I will raise up to them. Ezek. 34. 23. I will set up one Shepherd over them, and he shall lead them, even my Servant David: and elsewhere. And there are many things spoken in the Psalms concerning David, that can be properly applied to ⟨p. 45⟩none but Christ. By the House of David, we may literally understand his natural Posterity, or those that descended from him by Natural Generation, so the word, House, is frequently used; under which is shadowed Christ's Spiritual Seed, or those who were given him by his Father, and were to descend from him by a Spiritual Regeneration; such a Seed is promised him, Psal. 22. 30. A Seed shall serve him; it shall be counted to the Lord for a Generation. And under the Type of David, the Seed of Christ is eminently set forth, in Psal. 89. And it comprehends in it all the Elect of God, whom he tells us that his Father had given to him, and they were in due time to be born of him by a new birth. Jerusalem was a City which God chose out of all the Tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: there he settled his Ordinances, and therefore is said to have a peculiar respect for it,