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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.
A. For the more distinct opening and re•olving this important Case, let these things •e observed.
1. That the question is not concerning Unconverted Ones who are under the outward Dispensation of the Gospel; but those that are under Grace, • e. those that are truly Converted to God. •ouching the former of these, it is to be well observed, that notwithstanding the offer they •ave made to them, and standing which they •ave under the Covenant and Promises exhibited by the Gospel to men, in which life ⟨p. 174⟩and Salvation is hypothetically promised unto them, and invitations are urged upon them to entertain it on the terms proposed; yet before such time as they have actually embraced the offered Grace, they are truly under the Law as a Covenant of Works: and because they are so, it demands of them personal perfection both habitual and actual, and that on pai• of death; for we are told in, Gal. 3. 10. A• many as are of the works of the Law, are und•• the Curse: for it is written, Cursed is every […] that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them. Hence as of old, God gave the Moral Law a new Sanction, on Mount Sinai with thunderings and lightnings, and great terrors, as we are informed, Exod. 19 & 20 So to make way fo• the veiled Gospel, which was afterwards give• to Moses, and by him to Israel, in those Ord nances, or Ceremonial Institutions which wer delivered to him; so, under the Gospel, t those that are partakers of the outward ben fits of it, when he comes to Convert any Sinners among them to Christ, and make the to accept of him, as a Saviour, he lays the under the terrors of the Law Moral, by showing them what is therein required of the and what they are to expect at the hands a Righteous God, if those demands be n fully answered; and by this he convince them of their misery, and self impotency