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…

2. This tells us how justly and inexcusably they will perish, who come not to this fountain. It is certain that all men in their natural state, are in a perishing condition, being cut off from the fountain of living waters; there is no recovering of i• again, and life by it, but in and by Christ, in whom it is ••ored. Mans ruin had been just if this had never been opened to him: God owes not to the Fallen creature any hope, nor any provision for its recovery: But if, when God hath not only prepared such ⟨p. 38⟩a remedy, hut hath also opened it in the Go• pel, wooed men with all earnestness to com• to, and accept of it, used all endeavours wit• them to persuade them to embrace it; an• yet they refuse to hearken to his calls, to a• cept of his offers, put him away from the• when he comes to them, will not leave the• broken cisterns for this fountain of living waters there remains no more hope for these, because there is never another fountain at which the• Souls can find refreshment: they despite Christ, forsake him, will none of him, an• this makes their perdition inevitable, Jer. 1• 13. They that depart from me shall be written i• the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of living waters; and how right• ous a thing is it that they should thus suffer?

2. This tells us how justly and inexcusably they will perish, who come not to this fountain. It is certain that all men in their natural state, are in a perishing condition, being cut off from the fountain of living waters; there is no recovering of i again, and life by it, but in and by Christ, in whom it is ored. Mans ruine had been just if this had never been opened to him: God ows not to the Fallen creature any hope, nor any provision for its recovery: But if, when God hath not only prepared such