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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.
It is sin that hath made the woeful separation, which hath procured our infelicity, Isa. 59. 2. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. And what is sin, but a coming short of the glory of God? Rom. 3. 23. God therefore hath fully declared that he will bestow this favour upon none but those that honour him, 1 Sam. 2. 3•. Them that honour me, I will honour, and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.
It is sin that hath made the woful separation, which hath procured our infelicity, Isa. 59. 2. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. And what is sin, but a coming short of the glory of God? Rom. 3. 23. God therefore hath fully declared that he will bestow this favour upon none but those that honour him, 1 Sam. 2. 3•. Them that honour me, I will honour, and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.
5. That for this Active personal glorifying of God, man must have a Rule. It is not enough that he have an inward principle of Sanctification put into him, whereby he is disposed unto this Service, and empowered for the discharging of it, though without it he must needs fall short of his great end; but he must also have a directory to show him his way, in which this work is to be done. As there must be an heart in us inclining of us to Glorify God, else we cannot move one step towards it, so there must be a way according to which we are to incline our selves hereunto. It is certain that there are those things whereby God is dishonoured in the lives of the Children of men as well as those whereby they do honour him; and how should the man be able either to avoid the one, or rightly to