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…

1. Be affected with your own Necessity. The reason why this fountain is no more repaired unto, why Jesus Christ is so greatly neglected by the Children of men, is not because they have no need of him, but because they do not rightly resent their need. Were you in the case of those poor Lepers that sat in the gate of Samaria, of whom you read, in 2 Kings 7. begin. or of the poor Prodigal in his far Country, where he was ready to famish, Luke 15. You would soon bestir your selves. Consider then what Sin ⟨p. 21⟩hath made you; take the Word of God, and believe it, and there read what a forlorn condition you are in, starving, fainting, dying.

1. Be affected with your own Necessity. The reason why this fountain is no more repaired unto, why Jesus Christ is so greatly neglected by the Children of men, is not because they have no need of him, but because they do not rightly resent their need. Were you in the case of those poor Lepers that sat in the gate of Samaria, of whom you read, in 2 Kings 7. begin. or of the poor Prodigal in his far Countrey, where he was ready to famish, Luke 15. You would soon bestir your selves. Consider then what Sin ⟨p. 21⟩hath made you; take the Word of God, and believe it, and there read what a forlorn condition you are in, starving, fainting, dying.

2. Renounce all trust in broken cisterns, and seek to him alone for Supply. As long as you look elsewhere, he will not hear you; we are told, in