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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.
4 The way wherein we may come at, and partake in this fountain We must come to it, i• ever we obtain life from it; hence that complaint, Joh. 5. 40. Ye will not come to me, that you might have life. There is therefore a way in which •e may so come, and this mans reason and light could not have given him any direction about: it is therefore a great piece• of the natural mans misery, Rom. 3 17. The way of p•ace have they not known. This God hath opened to us in the New Covenant, by publishing the terms of it, viz Faith and Repentance, and showing us the fallacy of all the other ways which vain men have taken to obtain it, and missed in the end; Mic. 6. 8 He hath shown thee, O man, what is good. Now the way in which God hath discovered all this is in the Gospel, and by the Ordinances of it, 2 Tim. 1 10▪ Hath brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel. So that men need no longer to be a• a loss, nor […] from mountain to hill, seeking rest and finding n•ne▪
4 The way wherein we may come at, and partake in this fountain We must come to it, i• ever we obtain life from it; hence that complaint, Joh. 5. 40. Ye will not come to me, that you might have life. There is therefore a way in which •e may so come, and this mans reason and light could not have given him any direction about: it is therefore a great piece• of the natural mans misery,