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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.
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. That there is a Calling of the JEWS m•• tioned distributively with that of the Gentiles; and therefore it must be literally understo••, with respect to that Nation, and cannot be restrained to the Mystical body of Christ, which comprehends all of both sorts in it. This is designedly handled by the Apostle in, Rom. 11. The thing he there aims at, is to show tha• God hath not utterly cast off that Nation, an• he argues it from the reason of their being […] ⟨p. 111⟩o••, Verse 11, 12. Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid, &c. He therefore asserts that there will be a time wh•n they shall be restored again to a Church state, and return into favour with God; for which he also brings Scripture evidence, Verse 25, 26. Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in; & so all Israel shall be saved as it is written, &c. Nor can these things be understood Allegoricall• without violence done to the whole scope of the context.
1. That there is a Calling of the JEWS m•• tioned distributively with that of the Gentiles; and therefore it must be literally understo••, with respect to that Nation, and cannot be restrained to the Mystical body of Christ, which comprehends all of both sorts in it. This is designedly handled by the Apostle in, Rom. 11. The thing he there aims at, is to shew tha• God hath not utterly cast off that Nation, an• he argues it from the reason of their being 〈…〉 ⟨p. 111⟩