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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. Your misery is unconceivably great whiles you are under the Dominion of these. Indeed all mans misery began upon his Sinning: and •here are two springs from whence all this infelicity flows, viz. Guilt and Filthiness, nor can •• be taken off but by the removal of these. And one would think the greatness of your misery, should rouse you up to seek a deliverance from it: and you may know that it is ••comparably great by viewing the effects of ••, which are;
2. Your misery is unconceivably great whiles you are under the Dominion of these. Indeed all mans misery began upon his Sinning: and •here are two springs from whence all this in••licity flows, viz. Guilt and Filthiness, nor can •• be taken off but by the removal of these. And one would think the greatness of your misery, should rouse you up to seek a deliverance from it: and you may know that it is ••comparably great by viewing the effects of ••, which are;
1. By Sin you are exposed to the whole Curse of •• Law. And that is of the very nature of Guilt that attends upon Sin, before it is pardoned; for Guilt is nothing else but the binding of the curse upon the Sinner: And did you but know, or would you but look over and ponder upon the contents of the Curse, as it is recorded in the word of God, it would certainly fill you with terrors: It is contracted in a narrow word, Death, but if that word be spread abroad, and all the contents of it laid open to view, they will fill a prodigious Roll, such as that described in