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…

3. Hath your mourning reached to, and fined upon the sin of your nature? It is not enough to have bewailed this or that particular actual Sin, although God usually makes the conviction ⟨p. 153⟩•f, and the sorrow for such, to be leading to •he other: but he that hath truly mourned for Sin, hath been led up from thence to the fountain of corruption which is within, and that hath driven him to seek after the Fountain of Grace which is in Christ: and always true mourning ceaseth not, till it cometh hither, and lays out its greatest lamentations here: thus it did in David, in the forecited, Psal. 51. 5. And in the Church, Isa. 64. 6. We are all as an unclean thing; and in Paul, Rom. 7. 21. I find a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me▪

4. Hath this sorrow wrought in you unto a true Repentance from Sin? Repentance is one of the saving works of the Spirit wrought in Application: and wherever Christ is communicated to any as a fountain of Grace, there will be this effect of it. Now Godly Sorrow is an ingredient of this Repentance, and therefore if it be right, it will ever accompany such a thing. Repentance is a cordial turning from Sin to God: Sorrow for sin is that which helps and promoves this turning, if it be kindly; for it is a separating Affection, and as it derives from hatred of that which procures our trouble, so it will express it, in carrying us away from it; hence that, 2 Cor. 7. 9. Ye sorrowed to Repentance, for ye were made sorry after a godly manner. I• then ye have mourned never so bitterly for Sin, yet if you have not