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. Learn hence what reason we have to bless God that we live in times and places of Gospel light. Out of doubt the great advantage o• sinful men is to have Christ made known to them. The Apostasy had brought us all into a wilderness, a dry and thirsty land wherein there was no water: and had not this fountain been broken up to us, we must needs have perished. Had we lived in the days of the Law? if we had then been of the Nation of Israel, it had been a great privilege, and a singular favour: however, they were dark ⟨p. 37⟩times then compared with ours; but if we had been born of and among the Gentiles, we had been shut out from that Garden in which this fountain was made to spring up. It is prophesied concerning the Gentiles, with what resentments they shall receive the Gospel, Jer. 16. 19. The Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit: How far then is our condition better than theirs was? let us then be thankful to God, tha• the Wells of Salvation are opened to us, and we may draw waters out of them; that Christ is preached and offered to us, and we are invited to come to him to have our thirsty Souls satisfied; that these rivers run before our doors: this is not the privilege of all the world at this day. Think then how highly we are favoured hereby, and let God have the whole glory of it.

1. Learn hence what reason we have to bless God that we live in times and places of Gospel light. Out of doubt the great advantage o• sinful men is to have Christ made known to them. The Apostasy had brought us all into a wilderness, a dry and thirsty land wherein there was no water: and had not this fountain been broken up to us, we must needs have perished. Had we lived in the days of the Law? if we had then been of the Nation of Israel, it had been a great priviledge, and a singular favour: however, they were dark ⟨p. 37⟩times then compared with ours; but if we had been born of and among the Gentiles, we had been shut out from that Garden in which this fountain was made to spring up. It is prophesied concerning the Gentiles, with what resentments they shall receive the Gospel,