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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.
To the READER.
SUCH is the fullness of Sufficiency in Christ, that no words can enough express it: for which reason the Holy Scriptures set him forth under the shadow of many Metaphors, which require a Spiritual improvement; all of which put together make up but a dark & deficient description of him: and yet every one of them Commends him to us as an Object worthy of our Love & Trust, inasmuch as they represent him one every way furnished to answer all our wants, which can no where else be supplied; and, but for whom we must needs have perished in them. The following Sermons set him forth as a Fountain, and such an one as is Opened to miserable men, together with those Virtues which do more eminently flow from him as such, for the abundant supply of all those that partake in him: and withal it gives us the comfortable notice of a more peculiar & glorious Revelation and Application of it, to be made in these last days. ⟨image 3⟩If thou hast known, what it is to be in a dry and thirsty land, where no Water is, this will be good News to thee. If thou hungerest and thirstest after Righteousness, this will give thee direction. If thou hast ever tasted that he is gracious, thou wilt here find Refreshment. If thou art at a loss about the dark Providences which are upon the Christian World, thou wilt here find matter of encouragement, in prospect of the better Times wherein this Fountain will be wonderfully exhibited.
SƲCH is the fulness of Sufficiency in Christ, that no words can enough express it: for which reason the Holy Scriptures set him forth under the shadow of many Metaphors, which require a Spiritual improvement; all of which put together make up but a dark & deficient description of him: and yet every one of them Commends him to us as an Object worthy of our Love & Trust, inasmuch as they represent him one every way furnished to answer all our wants, which can no where else be supplied; and, but for whom we must needs have perished in them. The following Sermons set him forth as a Fountain, and such an one as is Opened to miserable men, together with those Vertues which do more eminently flow from him as such, for the abundant supply of all those that partake in him: and withall it gives us the comfortable notice of a more peculiar & glorious Revelation and Application of it, to be made in these last days.