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…

1. That there is a select number of Adams ruined Posterity, whom God hath appointed to bring to eternal life by Christ. We must begin here, if we would follow this grace down from the fountain of it. Gods last end in this great affair was the exaltation of the glory of his Grace; but in the ordering of the Media by which this was to be brought about ⟨p. 49⟩there must be a subject in whom it is to be exalted: and that can be no other than a Creature that needed it. This necessity man brought upon himself by his undoing Apostasy, out of the ruins whereof God would pick up such as should be made the monuments of it: and these were not intended to be all, but only some, who are called his Chosen, those whom he hath given to Christ, those whose names are written in the Book of Life, and other like distinguishing notes, differencing them from the rest of mankind: nor could this appointment be only general and conditional, for then it were improper to say, that their names were written, or that God knows who they are, but we are assured that he doth, 2 Tim 2. 19.

1. That there is a select number of Adams ruined Posterity, whom God hath appointed to bring to eternal life by Christ. We must begin here, if we would follow this grace down from the fountain of it. Gods last end in this great affair was the exaltation of the glory of his Grace; but in the o•dering of the Media by which this was to be brought about ⟨p. 49⟩there must be a subject in whom it is to be exalted: and that can be no other than a Creature that needed it. This necessity man brought upon himself by his undoing Apostasy, out of the ruines whereof God would pick up such as should be made the monuments of it: and these were not intended to be all, but only some, who are called his Chosen, those whom he hath given to Christ, those whose names are written in the Book of Life, and other like distinguishing notes, differencing them from the rest of mankind: nor could this appointment be only general and conditional, for then it were improper to say, that their names were written, or that God knows who they are, but we are assured that he doth, 2 Tim 2. 19.