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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.
2. Have you mourned after a Godly sort? It may be you have been touched with remor•es of Conscience, & Sin hath been set home upon you with terror: but that may be, and yet be only a part of the punishment of Sin in this life: there is therefore a double sorrow for sin, Godly and Worldly: 2 Cor. 7. 10. And is yours a Godly one? Try it by these things.
1. Have you ever felt the bitterness of Sin it self? Many an one finds sorrow by his sins, and is forced to acknowledge that his Sin hath brought it upon him, who yet is not led by it to see and believe that Sin is in its own nature so vile and evil as to be odious. It may be he only reads it in the Law, and he sees that God will maintain his own Law; but mean while he lays the blame, not on the sin that procured his sorrow, but on the Law that had such a Sanction in it: and he is therefore sorry for his sin, only because he is sorry that there is ⟨p. 152⟩such a Law, that will not suffer him to si• with impunity: this is no Godly Sorrow: it •• not acted by Humility, but by pride an• prejudice; and he saith as they, Ezek. 33. 10▪ If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, an• we pine away in them, how shall we then live?