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 the great errand on which Christ was sent into the world, was to take away the sins of his people. We have before observed that it was our sin that gave the occasion for the opening of this fountain, and why did Christ take an occasion from thence to appear in the state of a Redeemer, but that he might remove it? Joh. 1. 29. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Mat 1. 21. He shall save his people from their sins. It was not to reconcile God to sin, but to reconcile Sinners to God, 2 Cor. 5. 19. God was in Christ ⟨p. 86⟩reconciling the world to himself; which recon•• liation could be made in no other way, •• by the removal of that which had made t•• distance, which was nothing else but sin, […] 59. 2. Your iniquities have separated between […] and your God. It was because sin had ma•• the world an Hospital, that Christ was se• into it to come as an healer, a Physician, and so he compares himself, in Mat. 9. 13.

1. That the great errand on which Christ was sent into the world, was to take away the sins of his people. We have before observed that it was our sin that gave the occasion for the opening of this fountain, and why did Christ take an occasion from thence to appear in the state of a Redeemer, but that he might remove it? Joh. 1. 29. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Mat 1. 21. He shall save his people from their sins. It was not to reconcile God to sin, but to reconcile Sinners to God, 2 Cor. 5. 19. God was in Christ ⟨p. 86⟩