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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.
A. We may come at this in the following particulars.
1. This fountain was provided on purpose for the Salvation of undone Sinners. It was for the advancement of the riches of his Grace that God contrived it before time; and it was because sin had made man to stand in absolute need of it that God revealed it to him in time, hence that Rom 5 6. When we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly; Gal. 4.4. When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, &c. Had not man plunged himself into misery, ⟨p. 29⟩and helplessness in himself, or in the whole Creation, there had been no occasion for it. Hence we have Christ himself declaring the design of his coming in our nature, Mat. 9 13. I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance; and our Prophet acquaints us what the Blood of the Covenant was for, Zech. 9.11. By the Blood of thy Covenant, I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, where there is no water; and that blood was no other than what our Text and Doctrine call a fountain.
1. This fountain was provided on purpose for the Salvation of undone Sinners. It was for the advancement of the riches of his Grace that God contrived it before time; and it was because sin had made man to stand in absolute need of it that God revealed it to him in time, hence that Rom 5 6. When we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly; Gal. 4.4. When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, &c. Had not man plunged himself into misery, ⟨p. 29⟩and helplessness in himself, or in the whole Creation, there had been no occasion for it. Hence we have Christ himself declaring the design of his coming in our nature,