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…

3. That all saving qualifications are wrought in them at once, in Passive Conversion. When the Spirit of God comes to produce this great Change in the Sinner, he infuseth into him all his Sanctifying Graces: there is a new man created in him, Eph. 4. 24. There is a perfection of parts, though not of degrees: Sanctification is throughout, 1 Thes. 5. 23. There is therefore no order in the production of these saving qualities in the Soul, but they come in all at once. In Conversion whole Christ is put ••, it is therefore called a new birth, Joh. 3. 3. And it is the babe of Grace which is born, and it hath all its members entire.

4. That God draws the man to exert these Graces in Active Conversion, after the manner of a Rational Agent. In the exerting of Grace, the man is not only active, but voluntary too; he acts as a cause by Counsel. As therefore there is the Co▪ operation of God in this, as well as his operation in the former, according to, Phil. 2. 13. It is God which worketh in you, to will and to do, of his own good pleasure. So he works upon the Rational Faculties or Powers that are put into man; and having sanctified them, he draws them forth to put the new nature into act, upon sight, deliberation, and with persuasion. He is not drawn to it by mere instinct▪ but he knows what he doth, and why he doth it: he hath a foundation on which he acts every Grace; he knows whom ⟨p. 134⟩he believes, in, and why he so doth,