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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.
3. The permission of him to fall That ma• did eventually fall from his Rule and Happiness, is a thing very notorious. That this […] was a foil on which God •rew the lines, and laid the colours o• his Grace and Mercy, is no less observable in the Word of God: hence that, Rom 5. 20 21. The Law entered that si• might abound; but where sin abounded, Gra•• did much more abound: that as sin hath […] unto death, even so might grace reign through righ▪ ⟨p. 75⟩teousness […] eternal life, through Jesus Christ […] Lord. And that God had a respect unto […] in appointing Christ to be a Redeemer and Saviour, is not to be doubted, inasmuch […] this was the very thing from which he was •o redeem and save us: this therefore is said to commend that Grace, Rom. 5. 8. God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were […] sinners, Christ died for us. God therefore must needs have a foresight of this Apostasy, because the assignation of Christ to his Media••al Offices had a respect to it; and that man had not fallen but by Divine Permission, is certain: for God could have kept him from it, without offering force to his free will, as he did the glorious Angels that keep their Station, as he doth the perfected Saints in Glory, and as he doth true Believers in this life from final Apostasy; and this Permission must needs flow from his will, because he is the Supreme Governor of all Creatures, and all their actions, according to is holy pleasure. Hence, though God doth •ot approve of, but hateth sin, yet he saw it •ood, for an higher end, that there should •e sin by his Permission.
3. The permission of him to fall That ma• did eventually fall from his Rule and Happiness, is a thing very notorious. That this was a foil on which God rew the lines, and laid the colours o his Grace and Mercy, is no less observable in the Word of God: henc that, Rom 5. 20 21. The Law entred that si might abound; but where sin abounded, Gra did much more abound: that as sin hath unto death, even so might grace reign through righ