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…

2. That in order to the bringing about of this purpose of God, there are two things requisite to be done for the man, viz The Justification of his person, and the Sanctification of his nature. The ground of this, is because there is a double misery befallen the man by the Apostasy, viz. ⟨p. 180⟩Guilt, which hath rendered him obnoxious to the wrath of God, yea brought him under a sentence of Condemnation, binding him over to suffer the whole Curse that is contained in the threatening of Death, unto the execution whereof the Justice of God stands engaged in the Covenant of works: And Pollution, by which his nature is depraved, and fallen under the Dominion of Sin which reigns as a King in him, and so he is rendered utterly impotent to the doing of that which is good, and i• which his formal happiness did consist, and al• his powers are violently bent to that which is evil: and so long as these two abide upon him he cannot be happy, but must needs be miserable. As long as the man lies under the Curses of the Law, a Prisoner of Revenging Justice, doomed to suffer all the wrath that is contained in the threatenings that are out against Sinners, in which the quintessence of al• evil is contained; and is held fettered in Cord• of Iniquity, so as that he can do nothing of that business which he was made for, but is, by the force of his carnal lusts, hurried and precipitated into repeated provocations of God, he must needs be a miserable Creature: Nor can he be recovered to a state of blessedness, but by the removal of both these evils from him; and if either of them remain upon him, he is incapable of being a blessed man in that condition. The former of these is done by Justification, ⟨p. 181⟩and the latter by Sanctification. In the one his Condemnation is removed, his Guilt is taken away, he is acquitted from the Law, and delivered from all danger of suffering the direful penalties of it; yea and is adjudged to life, to partake in the good that is laid up in the promise; in the latter his nature is restored, and renewed again, and he is rendered able to Serve God in newness of life; he who before was unprofitable, is now made profitable; and can glorify God, which was his last end. And for this reason both these benefits of the new Covenant, are so much celebrated in the Gospel: both of these are included in that reason of the Name which was put upon Christ at his birth,