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…

USE II. For Examination, Let us hereby prove whether ever this Fountain were savingly Opened to us, and it concerns all to put themselves upon this Trial. For Motive then, Consider,

1. You are all by Nature under the guilt and defilement of Sin. Sin and Uncleanness are hereditary to all Adams Children, and they derive to them in the Channel of Natural Generation; for this we are told, Eph. 2. 3. We ⟨p. 147⟩•e Children of wrath, even as others; and he demands and resolves, Job 144 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. This then is the condition in which every one is born. Adams First Transgression was ours by a legal Imputation, and his corrupt Image which he contracted, instead of Gods Image which he lost, is ours by Propagation; and thus we come into the world guilty and filthy Creatures, Psal. 51. 5. Behold, I was shapen in ••iquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me. And this Guilt and Defilement are increased by all the actual sins that we have committed since we came into the World.

1. You are all by Nature under the guilt and defilement of Sin. Sin and Uncleanness are hereditary to all Adams Children, and they derive to them in the Channel of Natural Generation; for this we are told, Eph. 2. 3. We ⟨p. 147⟩•e Children of wrath, even as others; and he demands and resolves, Job 144 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. This then is the condition in which every one is born. Adams First Transgression was ours by a legal Imputation, and his corrupt Image which he contracted, instead of Gods Image which he lost, is ours by Propagation; and thus we come into the world guilty and filthy Creatures,