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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.
5. Till then you know that he hath been thus applied to you, your condition must needs be dubious. It is from the work of Application that we ••e to fetch our evidence of our safe estate. It is not enough that there is a Christ, and that he is a Fountain of Salvation, but is he ••rs? for this reason Professors are put upon it to prove and try themselves; and the enquiry is not, whether there be such a Fountain, and there be a fullness in it, but whether Christ be in us, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Know ye not your own selves, how that Christ is in you, except ye be Reprobates? And hence we have such an expression, Col. 1. 27. Christ in you the hope of Glory. And though, if the thing be so, your state is out of danger, yet till you know that it is so, you cannot enjoy inward quiet or satisfaction.
5. Till then you know that he hath been thus applied to you, your condition must needs be dubious. It is from the work of Application that we ••e to fetch our evidence of our safe estate. It is not enough that there is a Christ, and that he is a Fountain of Salvation, but is he ••rs? for this reason Professors are put upon it to prove and try themselves; and the enquiry is not, whether there be such a Fountain, and there be a fulness in it, but whether Christ be in us, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Know ye not your own selves, how that Christ is in you, except ye be Reprobates? And hence we have such an expression, Col. 1. 27. Christ in you the hope of Glory. And though, if the thing be so, your state is out of danger, yet till you know that it is so, you cannot enjoy inward quiet or satisfaction.