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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.
6. That these cannot distinguish between those that are given to Christ, and others. They are not acquainted with the secret counsels of God concerning men in particular; they find men equally lying in the rubbish of the Apostasy, and have not been admitted to look into the Lambs Book of Life, and there to read whose names stand upon record, so as to apply themselves to them and to no other. Those whom God hath purposed to show his special Grace upon, are alike with others in their natural estate, being children of wrath as they, Eph. 2. 3. There is no difference between them in their frame and disposition, Rom. 3. 9. They are all under sin. In their natural state they are held under the power and dominion of their lusts, and are as ill conditioned as the most, and possibly have run themselves into as great exorbitancies, Tit. 3. 3. We our selves were sometimes disobedient, serving ⟨p. 54⟩divers lusts, &c. Nay, they may have • themselves so prodigiously against God, a• Christ, that these may doubt of them, a• object against them, so did Ananias, with r• spect to Paul, when God bad him to visit him Acts 9. 13. Lord, I have heard by many of t• man, how much evil he hath done to thy Saints • Jerusalem, &c. Before God cometh with h• power to accompany their ministry to effect his Servants may meet with more discourage meant from such whom God will bring ho• to himself by their Ministry at last, than fro• any others.
6. That these cannot distinguish between those that are given to Christ, and others. They are not acquainted with the secret counsels of God concerning men in particular; they find men equally lying in the rubbish of the Apostasy, and have not been admitted to look into the Lambs Book of Life, and there to read whose names stand upon record, so as to apply themselves to them and to no other. Those whom God hath purposed to shew his special Grace upon, are alike with others in their natural estate, being children of wrath as they,