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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.
Evangelical Perfection. OR How far the Gospel requires Believers to Aspire after being completely Perfect. As it was Delivered on a Lecture at Boston, on June 10th. 1694.
Evangelical Perfection. OR How far the Gospel requires Believers to Aspire after being compleatly Perfect. As it was Delivered on a Lecture at Boston, on June 10th. 1694.
By Samuel Willard, Teacher of a Church in Boston.
MATH. V. 48. Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.
IN this Chapter, with the two following an account is given of the substance or heads of a Sermon which Christ preached to his Disciples, in the audience of a multitude soon after he had called them, The matters contained in this fifth Chapter, may ⟨p. 168⟩be reduced to three heads. [1.] He points the way to true Blessedness, by describing the subjects of it in several distinguishing Characters of them, and declaring wherein the• appear to be really happy, Verse 3. to 13 [2.] He lays open the Office and Duty o such as would approve themselves to be faithful and edifying Ministers of the Gospel, to Verse 17. [3.] He asserts the great usefulness of the Moral Law, under the Gospel, assuring us that his design was not to Abolish, but Establish it; and thereupon proceeds to Vindicate the true sense of it from the corrupt and false glosses of the Jewish Doctors to the end of the Chapter. In which he insists upon several Articles, which had been more especially depraved by them: and the words of our Text are an Exhortation which he draws from the whole foregoing discourse; though I know there are some who needlessly restrain it to the next foregoing duty of expressing our cordial love to our enemies, in opposition to the Doctrine of the Scribes, who taught that we should love our neighbour, and hate our enemy. I know the words are expressed in the Future tense; Ye shall be perfect; but yet they are no to b understood Promissorily, as some do interpret them; but Preceptively as an injunct on laid upon us. And we have several like instances in this Chapter; yea & it is frequent in all languages to use the Future for the Imperative: