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…

Thou shalt call his Name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. And in Gods taking away all iniquity from them, Hos. 14. 2.

3. That the end of this Sanctification, is to make him a fit subject to enjoy true blessedness. It is true, without Justification of the mans person, and in it a pardon of his Sins applied to him, he cannot be happy; for how is it possible that he should be so, as long as the wrath of God abides on him, and he is every moment liable to the fearful stroke of Divine Vengeance, which is ready to fall on him, and cut him off! Whereas if once this state of his be changed, and he is a Justified and Pardoned man, he is forthwith blessed, according to Psal 32. 1. ⟨p. 182⟩Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Yet this alone is not sufficient for his actual enjoyment of the felicity promised in the New-Covenant; for true blessedness can only consist in the closure of the faculty with its Object, and resting satisfied in it; for without satisfaction the man is not happy; and that it may thus do, it is necessary that there be a suitableness between the faculty and the object, how else should it either close with, or take real content in it? Now the blessedness which God hath laid in to entertain his people withal, is suited only to Holiness in the subject of it; so that without it, it is impossible that the man should ever participate in it, or be delighted with it, Heb. 12. 14. Without Holiness no man shall see God. So that the sinful pollution which is upon the very nature of fallen man, by reason of the sin that dwells in him, renders him, in the present condition, and so long as he abides under the prevailing efficacy of it, altogether unmeet for blessedness, yea indeed incapable of it. He cannot have Communion with God, in which his felicity must consist, for God alone is an happifying object; nor, if he could can he take any content to himself in it, because God is Holy, and such is the fellowship which he holds with the Creature, than which nothing can be more contrary to the corruption wherewith his nature is defiled. We read of A meetness