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…

3. That where this Fountain is savingly •plied, it shall take away the Sin and Un•anness of the People of God. These then •ay be briefly, and yet distinctly taken into •••sideration.

1. That it was the sin and uncleanness of man, •• gave the occasion for the Opening of th•s ••tain. We must here distinguish between cause and an occasion. They go too far, he assign a Causality in sin to the coming • Christ in the Flesh, and his working out • Salvation for us: for though, as will anon • considered, if it had not been for this, he •d not so come, yet there cannot properly • assigned any causality in this to such an sect: and they who so think, do not rightly •sider the order and causes of Gods Works • Efficiency. They that ascribe a causality • it, reckon it to be an impulsive cause, or a •otive on the mind of God to send his Son •to the world on this Errand: but that it cannot be, because the will of God is the supreme cause of his purposing the works of Efficiency. And as the Glory of his Grace was the last end of his purpose of Election, ⟨p. 66⟩•• the fall of man into sin, and under mis by sin, was a purposed Medium to it, and could not possibly be a Medium to that pose. However in the contrivance of Media, there was an all-wise concatenate of one with another, and so the sin and cleanness of man gave occasion for the ming of Christ. And we may take this s account of it.