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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.
1. He bewails all his Sins. Godly Sorrow is for Sin: that is the procuring cause of all the sorrows that poor man is exposed unto, and is therefore that which peculiarly calls for our mourning; and this belongs to that sorrow which the Apostle tells us is so serviceable to true Repentance, 2 Cor. 7. 10, Godly sorrow worketh repentance not to be repented of. It is by this that we embitter sin to our selves, and stir up in us an hatred of it: for, though sorrow be a mixed Affection, yet it mainly ⟨p. 137⟩partakes of hatred, which is a separating affection, and makes us to reject the Object of it. Now if this sorrow be genuine, it is universal; it bears a respect to all sin; because if it be right, it is excited by the apprehension of the great evil there is in sin, in the nature, as well as in the effects of it; which evil being in all sin, it must needs extend to all: hence that, Psalm 119. 104. I hate every false way; and where this hatred is, there will be Sorrow for our having hurt our selves by it, and therein dishonoured God.
1. He bewails all his Sins. Godly Sorrow is for Sin: that is the procuring cause of all the sorrows that poor man is exposed unto, and is therefore that which peculiarly calls for our mourning; and this belongs to that sorrow which the Apostle tells us is so serviceable to true Repentance, 2 Cor. 7. 10, Godly sorrow worketh repentance not to be repented of. It is by this that we embitter sin to our selves, and stir up in us an hatred of it: for, though sorrow be a mixt Affection, yet it mainly ⟨p. 137⟩partakes of hatred, which is a separating affection, and makes us to reject the Object of it. Now if this sorrow be genuine, it is universal; it bears a respect to all sin; because if it be right, it is excited by the apprehension of the great evil there is in sin, in the nature, as well as in the effects of it; which evil being in all sin, it must needs extend to all: hence that,