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…

8. Have you been duly affected in particular with the Affronts which you have offered to Jesus Christ? This is specified, Chap. 12. 10. They ⟨p. 156⟩shall look upon me whom they have pierced, & they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son, and be in bitterness for him, as one that is i• bitterness for his first born. There is nothing more bitter to one that is truly Converted, than the ill entertainment that he hath given to a Saviour, who came to him, and offered himself to be one to him. It may be you have led a sober life, and cannot charge your selves with the immoralities which others have fallen into: but you have lived under the Calls of the Gospel, and have been many a time invited, and solicited to come to Christ, to take him for a Saviour; but you have made light of it, neglected him, been content without him; you have often been inwardly striven with by the motions of the Spirit, but you have quenched them, and grieved him thereby: You have lived in your unbelief and been contented so to do; you have had a low esteem of him, and of his Salvation; you have relied on your own Righteousness, and not submitted to his; you sought him not, would not come to him for life; and thus you went on from year to year, till he came to awaken and bring you home to himself Now all these things come to mind, and they carry an emphatical consideration in them to make you vile in your own eyes, and bewail your impenitence. If ever you looked to Chris• with an eye of faith, it hath been with a mournful eye.

8. Have you been duly affected in particular with the Affronts which you have offered to Jesus Christ? This is specifyed, Chap. 12. 10. They ⟨p. 156⟩shall look upon me whom they have pierced, & they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son, and be in bitterness for him, as one that is i• bitterness for his first born. There is nothing more bitter to one that is truly Converted, than the ill entertainment that he hath given to a Saviour, who came to him, and offered himself to be one to him. It may be you have led a sober life, and cannot charge your selves with the immoralities which others have fallen into: but you have lived under the Calls of the Gospel, and have been many a time invited, and sollicited to come to Christ, to take him for a Saviour; but you have made light of it, neglected him, been content without him; you have often been inwardly striven with by the motions of the Spirit, but you have quenched them, and grieved him thereby: You have lived in your unbelief and been contented so to do; you have had a low esteem of him, and of his Salvation; you have relied on your own Righteousness, and not submitted to his; you sought him not, would not come to him for life; and thus you went on from year to year, till he came to awaken and bring you home to himself Now all these things come to mind, and they carry an emphatical consideration in them to make you vile in your own eyes, and bewail your impenicence. If ever you looked to Chris with an eye of faith, it hath been with a mournful eye.