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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.
1. You Sin daily. Though lust be mortified as to the Dominion of it, yet it is not abolished in you, but hath its daily breakings out: there is a contrary part in you, that is ever and anon bringing you into captivity. We are told, in Eccles. 7. 20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not; and the reason of it is, because there is a Flesh in us that is always lusting against the Spirit, Gal. 5. 17.
1. You Sin daily. Though lust be mortified as to the Dominion of it, yet it is not abolished in you, but hath its dayly breakings out: there is a contrary part in you, that is ever and anon bringing you into captivity. We are told, in Eccles. 7. 20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not; and the reason of it is, because there is a Flesh in us that is always lusting against the Spirit, Gal. 5. 17.
2. Every Sin offers matter of provo•atinn to God. It is a Transgression of his holy Law; it is an abominable thing to him, Jer. 44. 4. ⟨p. 104⟩It is that which he cannot endure, Hab. 1. 13. And though he knows our frame, and will not be always contending with us, or▪ break out in his severity for every frailty of ours; yet there is occasion offered him for his anger, and we must confess with him,