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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
THE Fountain Opened, &c. › Doctrine 1: DOCTRINE I. That Jesus Christ is a Fountain of saving Good.
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.
3. How he came to be such a fountain?
A. This flows from his Mediator-ship, and may be traced in these four particulars.
1. Mans Apostasy had cut him off from God as the fountain of life to him. All mans happiness is fountained in God, and must derive from him by way of participation. He was at first, in his state of Integrity, planted by this fountain, had free access to it, and could refresh himself at all times with it; the streams of it ran down freely on him: but when he sinned against God, •hat made a woeful separation, so God tells them, Isa. 59. 2. Your sins have separated between you and your God; and since then, ⟨p. 14⟩that is a proper […] of […] men in their natural state, Psal. 73 27. They that are far from thee. God is no longer his portion; of a friend he is become his enemy; all those Glorious Attributes which when for him, would have filled him with satisfaction, are now armed against him, and become a terror to him, being ready to destroy him: and if this be not retrieved he cannot escape perdition.
1. Mans Apostasy had cut him off from God as the fountain of life to him. All mans happiness is fountained in God, and must derive from him by way of participation. He was at first, in his state of Integrity, planted by this fountain, had free access to it, and could refresh himself at all times with it; the streams of it ran down freely on him: but when he sinned against God, •hat made a woful separation, so God tells them,