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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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2. There is a Calling of the JEWS foretold to be in the days of the Gospel. Their call and return from Babylon was before Christs coming in our flesh, but there is another spoken of which is to be after that, and therefore God makes mention of doing it a second time, Isa. 11. 11, 12. The Lord shall set his hand again the Second time, to recover the remnant of his people from Assyria, and from Egypt, &c. And he saith that this shall come to pass in that day: which the whole context assures us, is the day of the Gospel after Christ had appeared in our nature: and doubtless whatsoever was Prophesied concerning that People, after their return to their Land must look forward; and many things cannot be understood of any but the Gospel day: and such is our Text and Context; inasmuch as Zechariah was one of these Prophets who Prophesied to the returned Captivity • and the tenor of this particular Vision of •i• ⟨p. 112⟩points us to the day when Christ had been Crucified among them.
2. There is a Calling of the JEWS foretold to be in the days of the Gospel. Their call and return from Babylon was before Christs coming in our flesh, but there is another spoken of which is to be after that, and therefore God makes mention of doing it a second time, Isa. 11. 11, 12. The Lord shall set his hand again the Second time, to recover the remnant of his people from Assyria, and from Egypt, &c. And he saith that this shall come to pass in that day: which the whole context assures us, is the day of the Gospel after Christ had appeared in our nature: and doubtless whatsoever was Prophesied con•erning that People, after their return to their Land must look forward; and many things cannot be understood of any but the Gospel day: and such is our Text and Context; inasmuch as Zechariah was one of these Prophets who Prophesied to the returned Captivity • and the tenour of this particular Vision of •i