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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.
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, Rom. 7. 24. If at any time you are over taken with any sin, it makes you to groan, and bewail your selves, and say as he, Psal. 38. 18. I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin. Nay, if you see others to sin, though they commit it without remorse, yet you cannot but mourn for it, as he, Psal. 119. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. And Verse 158. I beheld the transgressors and was grieved, because they kept not thy word.
7. Have you in you an habitual frame of spiri••al 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, Rom. 7. 24. If at any time you are over taken with any sin, it makes you to groan, and bewail your selves, and say as he, Psal. 38. 18. I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin. Nay, if you see others to sin, though they commit it without remorse, yet you cannot but mourn for it, as he, Psal. 119. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. And Verse 158. I beheld the transgressours and was grieved, because they kept not thy word.