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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
THE Fountain Opened, &c. › Doctrine 1: DOCTRINE I. That Jesus Christ is a Fountain of saving Good.
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 You will be miserably disappointed if you go any whither else for it. You will have many solicitors, who will say to you, Turn in hither, and will promise you fair; but all is a cheat; believe them not; if you will not be miserably disappointed. If you seek to the world, there is not one drop of the waters of life to be found in it, it hath nothing but poisoned waters, which, however they may please your carnal appetites, will not satisfy an immortal Soul. The Worlds Cup may intoxicate you, but it will never slack your thirst; mans misery began in his turning to it, Jer 2.13. They have dug to themselves broken cisterns that can hold no water. If you seek it in your own ⟨p. 20⟩Righteousness, and take much pains in quest of it by that course, it will deceive you; God expostulates thus with all that will not come to these waters, Isa. 55.2. Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
2 You will be miserably disappointed if you go any whither else for it. You will have many solicitours, who will say to you, Turn in hither, and will promise you fair; but all is a cheat; believe them not; if you will not be miserably disappointed. If you seek to the world, there is not one drop of the waters of life to be found in it, it hath nothing but poysoned waters, which, however they may please your carnal appetites, will not satisfie an immortal Soul. The Worlds Cup may in•oxicate you, but it will never slack your thirst; mans misery began in his turning to it, Jer 2.13. They have dug to themselves broken cisterns thar can hold no water. If you seek it in your own ⟨p. 20⟩Righteousness, and take much pains in quest of it by that course, it will deceive you; God expostulates thus with all that will not come to these waters, Isa. 55.2. Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?