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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.
3. Nothing else can do it for you but this Fountain. There is a sufficiency of virtue in it for this end; God provided it for this very purpose, and he doth nothing in vain: it therefore never failed of producing this effect, where it was savingly applied. But except you repair hither, all your other attempts will prove lost labour: this Salvation is no where else to be had, Acts 4. 12. There is nothing else that can expiate the Guilt of sin, or make atonement to the Justice of God for the remission of it, but this one Sacrifice of Christ: thousands of rams will not procure it, God therefore blows upon them with contempt, Mic. 6. 6, 7, 8. Nor will all the waters of Abana and Pharpar cleanse this Leprosy; it is only the Blood of Christ is cleansing, and that Blood doth cleanse from all sin, 1 Joh 1. 7.
3. Nothing else can do it for you but this Fountain. There is a sufficiency of vertue in it for this end; God provided it for this very purpose, and he doth nothing in vain: it therefore never failed of producing this effect, where it was savingly applied. But except you repair hither, all your other attempts will prove lost labour: this Salvation is no where else to be had, Acts 4. 12. There is nothing else that can expiate the Guilt of sin, or make atonement to the Justice of God for the remission of it, but this one Sacrifice of Christ: thousands of rams will not procure it, God therefore blows upon them with contempt, Mic. 6. 6, 7, 8. Nor will all the waters of Abana and Pharpar cleanse this Leprosy; it is only the Blood of Christ is cleansing, and that Blood doth cleanse from all sin, 1 Joh 1. 7.
4. Except it be applied to you it will not have this saving efficacy. Christ doth not profit all▪ although his virtue be sufficient, yet all are not pardoned and healed by him: there are multitudes that perish in their sins notwithstanding; and that not only of those to whom he was never revealed in the Gospel, but of such also, who have been told of, and invited to come to him: and whence is this, but because application hath not been made of him to them for this end? Sinners that are outwardly