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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.
6. Hath your sorrow looked back to the sins of Youth? Where God doth indeed give a spirit of mourning, he will make a thorough work of it, he will lead the Soul into a soaking consideration of all that hath been grievous to his holy spirit; he will bring to mind old sins, & those that had been forgotten before, and embitter them to us, and the reason is because those sins also must be repented of, for which there must be a suitable sorrow. Time will not wear off the Guilt of any sin, but Christ must cleanse it with his blood, and in order ⟨p. 155⟩thereto we must carry it to him for cleansing; and we cannot do so aright, but by bemoaning our selves before him for it. David therefore in his address to God runs up hither, Psal. 25 7. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
6. Hath your sorrow lookt back to the sins of Youth? Where God doth indeed give a spirit of mourning, he will make a thorough work of it, he will lead the Soul into a soaking consideration of all that hath been grievous to his holy spirit; he will bring to mind old sins, & those that had been forgotten before, and embitter them to us, and the reason is because those sins also must be repented of, for which there must be a suitable sorrow. Time will not wear off the Guilt of any sin, but Christ must cleanse it with his blood, and in order ⟨p. 155⟩thereto we must carry it to him for cleansing; and we cannot do so aright, but by bemoaning our selves before him for it. David therefore in his address to God runs up hither, Psal. 25 7. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
7. Have you in you an habitual frame of spiritual mourning? Godly sorrow is not a land-flood, that is raised by some storm, and is dried up again soon after that is over, but it is a living spring, it is an habitual Grace in the Soul, and for that reason it is called a Spirit of Grace, Chap. 12. 10. And this appears in a constant promptitude to mourn for sin upon every occasion. Every sight of sin stirs up this Godly sorrow. When ever you feel any stirrings of Concupiscence within, it makes you to cry out, Oh wretched man, who shall deliver me,