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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. 1. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of quotations]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. 1. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of quotations]
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.
2. In the order of the means to this end, there was nothing wherein God designed the exaltation of this Grace and Mercy, equally with that of Christ in respect of his Redemption and Salvation. He that designs an end, must choose and use means for the bringing of it about; and many times there is an order of many means for the accomplishment of that which is intended; and in this order there is a subordination of them one to another, in their serving to the design of them: and this is very manifest in the wonderful ⟨p. 68⟩counsel of God, for the exaltation of the glory of his Grace and Mercy. Now, as the way in which God chose to glorify these perfections of his, was by the Redemption and Salvation of man, in and by which man was to be made the monument of them; so he appointed Jesus Christ to be the Redeemer and Saviour, in which he had a regard to Christ's Mediatorial Glory: Christ therefore tells us, Joh. 5.22, 23. The Father Judgeth no man, but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son; that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. The person of Christ, considered as God and man, was a great Medium in this affair; and for that reason he is called a Mediator, or a middle person, 1 Tim. 2.5. There is one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus. God therefore constituted him to be such a person, that so in and through him, this rich Grace of his might shine forth to all eternity; and for that reason we are said to be chosen in him for this end; Eph. 1.4. with 6. According as he hath chosen us in him, &c. To the praise of the glory of his Grace. And that wherein this Glory was to be illustrated was in the Redemption which he was to work out, by which our Salvation was to be procured, & the conferring of this purchased Salvation upon us by him▪ hence that, Verse 7. In whom we have Redemption through his blood. And indeed, in nothing could the Grace of God, so illustriously ⟨p. 69⟩appear, as in the appointing of his own Son to be a Redeemer for man, when his case was reduced to that exigence, that in no other way he could be Saved;