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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.
2. In the order of the means to this end, there was nothing wherein God designed the exaltation of this Grace and Mercy, equally with that of Christ in respect of his Redemption and Salvation. He that designs an end, must choose and use means for the bringing of it about; and many times there is an order of many means for the accomplishment of that which is intended; and in this order there is a subordination of them ••e to another, in their serving •• the design of them •nd this is very manifest in the wonderful ⟨p. 68⟩counsel of […] the exaltation of […] glory of •is Grace and Mercy. Now, as […] way in which God chose to glorify these […] fections of his, was by the Redemption and S• vation of man, in and by which man was • be made the monument of them; so he • pointed Jesus Christ to be the Redeemer a•• Saviour, in which he had a regard to Chri•• Mediatorial Glory: Christ therefore tells us, J•• 5. 22, 23. The Father Judgeth no man, but […] committed all Judgment unto the Son; that […] men should honour the Son, even as they hono•r […] Father. The person of Christ, considered • God and man, was a great Medium in […] affair; and for that reason he is called a […] diator, or a middle person, 1 Tim. 2. 5. […] is one Mediator between God and man, the […] Christ Jesus. God therefore constituted […] to be such a person, that so in and throu•• him, this rich Grace▪ of his might shi•e fo• • to all eternity; and for that reason we are […] to be chosen in him for this end;