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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.
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 ⟨p. 154⟩reached to such a Repentance, it hath not been right, nor will it evidence your being in Christ.
5. Hath this sorrow kindled in you an universal hatred of Sin? When God embitters sin to us, it is to make us to loath it; and if this hatred be of the right stamp, it will not only be against that one sin that hath done us the present sensible harm, but all of the kind, but every thing that bears the nature of sin on it; we can say as he, Psal. 119. 104. I hate every false way. And the reason is, because▪ if we mourned for sin under the consideration of its being sin, we shall be engaged against every other sin, in which we see the same grounds of hatred or detestation. He that mourns for one sin, and can in the mean while hug another in his bosom, and dally with it, doth not mourn aright for any.
5. Hath this sorrow kindled in you an universal hatred of Sin? When God embitters sin to us, it is to make us to loath it; and if this hatred be of the right stamp, it will not only be against that one sin that hath done us the present sensible harm, but all of the kind, but every thing that bears the nature of sin on it; we can say as he,