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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.
6. This Faith is always accompanied with true Repentance. In active Conversion these two Graces are in conjunction. I shall not here meddle with the disputes, which of these two Graces is the first: if we speak of their production, they are together, and so there is no priority of any Grace, they being created in the same instant: if we speak of their production, they are together, and so there is no priority of any Grace, they being created in the same instant: if we speak of the order of nature in their activity, Faith must have the precedency, because it influenceth all the other; for though there is a Legal Repentance before Conversion, yet that which is Evangelical follows upon it, and is no further pleasing to God, than as it is exercised by faith: but in respect to order of time, the man repents and believes at once, and so they are together. It is a penitent Faith, and a believing Repentance that is exerted; they are therefore conjoined, Acts 20. 21. Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
6. This Faith is always accompanied with true Repentance. In active Conversion these two Graces are in conjunction. I shall not here meddle with the disputes, which of these two Graces is the first: if we speak of their production, they are together, and so there is no priority of any Grace, they being created in the same instant: if we speak of th•ir production, they are together, and so there is no priority of any Grace, they being created in the same instant: if we speak of the order of nature in their activity, Faith must have the precedency, because it influenceth all the other; for though there is a Legal Repentance before Conversion, yet that which is Evangelical follows upon it, and is no further pleasing to God, than as it is exercised by faith: but in respect to order of time, the man repents and believes at once, and so they are together. It is a penitent Faith, and a believing Repentance that is exerted; they are therefore conjoyned, Acts 20. 21. Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.