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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.
3. He hath appointed the Ordinances of the Gospel in which these truths are to be dispensed. He hath instituted the Preaching of the Gospel, and sent his Ambassadors Commissioned by him for this very end, and that is the great business which they are to intend, and nothing else but what is in subordination to this, Cor. 2. 2. I determined to know nothing among you, but Jesus Christ, and him Crucified; and how doth Paul glory in this, Eph 3. 8. Unto me, who am less than the least of all Saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentil▪s the unsearchable riches of Christ. They are to declare this •ountain, and to commend it unto me•, and pray them to come to it; and thus i• stands open for all that will repair to it.
3. In what respect it is said to be opened in the days of the Gospel?
A We are by the days of the Gospel to understand all that time from Christ's having appeared in the Flesh, and accomplished the ⟨p. 33⟩work of Redemption, till the day of Judgment: which is called the Gospel day, in opposition to the times of the dispensation of the Law of Moses: else it is certain that it hath been a Gospel day, ever since the Revelation which was made to our First Parents, of the woman's seed breaking the head of the Serpent, Gen. 3. 15. And here we may observe three things.
A We are by the days of the Gospel to understand all that time from Christ's having appeared in the Flesh, and accomplished the