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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.
USE I. For Information in two or three particulars▪
1. Learn we hence the happiness of all those that have gotten an interest in Christ▪ All the Titl•• that are put upon him in the Word of God are to commend to us some excellent benefi• that flows from him to those that participate in him. Now, as Christ's Office is to convey saving mercies to us, so herein he appears glorious, in that they are all stored in him as in a fountain, and that he therefore is a fountain of them. How rich then are all they who are owners of this fountain, that dwell with him? Such are all true believers: these can never want; all that they can need is in him; and there is enough and to spare: this may turn the valley of Baca into a well, Psal 84: 6. Christ himself hath told us what is the privilege of those that believe in him, Joh. 7▪ 38 Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water; and hence the•e is such blessedness pronounced on believers, Jer. 17. 8. H• ⟨p. 17⟩shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and spreadeth out her root by the river, &c. Rejoice the• in this your lot, and envy not the world their broken cisterns, though they seem to be neve• so full.
1. Learn we hence the happiness of all those that have gotten an interest in Christ All the Titl that are put upon him in the Word of God are to commend to us some excellent benefi that flows from him to those that participat in him. Now, as Christ's Office is to convey saving mercies to us, so herein he appears glorious, in that they are all stored in him as in a fountain, and that he therefore is a fountain of them. How rich then are all they who are owners of this fountain, that dwell with him? Such are all true believers: these can never want; all that they can need is in him; and there is enough and to spare: this may turn the valley of Baca into a well,