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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
THE Fountain Opened, &c. › Doctrine 5 › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION. I.
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3. There are Predictions of glorious Things in the Gospel day, that had a special reference to the Power and Efficacy of the word in the Apostles […]. The bringing in of the Gospel dispensation, and the great changes that were •rought thereby, was a matter of Admiration, […] was therefore often foretold in the Old-T•••ament: and on this account we are acquainted that these and those things were the fulfilling of such and such Prophesies: particularly, the astonishing giving of the Holy Ghost, appearing in the Fiery Tongues given the Apostles soon after Christs Ascension, of which Peter gives that account, Acts 2. 16. &c. This is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel, &c.
3. There are Predictions of glorious Things in the Gospel day, that had a special reference to the P•wer and Efficacy of the word in the Apostles 〈…〉. The bringing in of the Gospel dispensation, and the great changes that were •rought thereby, was a matter of Admiration, 〈…〉 was therefore often foretold in the Old-T•••ament: and on this account we are acquain•ed that these and those things were the fulfilling of such and such Prophesies: particularly, the astonishing giving of the Holy Ghost, appearing in the Fiery Tongues given the Apostles soon after Christs Ascention, of which Peter gives that account, Acts 2. 16. &c. This is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel, &c.
4. There are Texts of Scripture that have their several degrees of accomplishment. Though there be but one thing that is ultimately designed in them, and till that be brought about, they are not completely fulfilled; yet they shall be exemplified in some preludious Providences, that shall carry in them a Specimen of the same thing; and are, as it were, Earnests of what is to come; and so one and the same word may be said to have been accomplished more than once: though that which it mainly intended