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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
THE Fountain Opened, &c. › Doctrine 1: DOCTRINE I. That Jesus Christ is a Fountain of saving Good.
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. A fountain is so called from the Quality of the waters in it. The waters of a fountain are very much different from those that are in a pool or cistern; and there are two titles that are put upon them in this regard.
1. They are called living waters. Hence we have such allusive expressions, Cant. 4. 15. A Well of living waters. Rev. 7. 17. And shall lead them to living fountains of water. Not that they properly have a principle of life, or a living Soul in them (for they are not in the order of Animates) but Metaphorically, in that they have something resembling life, ⟨p. 10⟩because they run, and overflow, and purge themselves, and have a continual motion. A• also from the efficacy of them, because they are salubrious, and very serviceable for the preservation of the life of the Creature. Thus is Christ in respect of his Graces compared to a fountain, Jer. 2. 13. Ye have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and the Graces which he communicates from himself to such as come unto him, have that Epithet given to them, because they do revive, or give and continue life to them who partake in them; see for this, Joh. 4. 10. He would have given thee living water; and 7. 38. He that believeth in me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water; and on this account the Psalmist ascribes that to him, Psal. 36 9. With thee is the fountain of life.
1. They are called living waters. Hence we have such allusive expressions,