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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.
1. It is clear from the Word of God, that this fountain was opened to man, before Christ came in our Flesh. There was a way of Salvation discovered unto man, presently after he had undone himself by sin; and there were a great many saved by the virtue of this fountain in the times of the Law: there were then holy men, who were the Friends of God, men after his own heart, men that trusted in him, and waited for his Salvation. There were Prophesies and Predictions about Christ from the beginning, and those that then believed on him as their Redeemer, they saw his day and were glad, they prayed in his name, they had an eye to him in all the Types and Figures which were of him: for that was a truth from the beginning, Acts 4.12. Neither is there Salvation in any other.
1. It is clear from the Word of God, that this fountain was opened to man, before Christ came in our Flesh. There was a way of Salvation discovered unto man, presently after he had undone himself by sin; and there were a great many saved by the vertue of this fountain in the times of the Law: there were then holy men, who were the Friends of God, men after his own heart, men that trusted in him, and waited for his Salvation. There were Prophesies and Predictions about Christ from the beginning, and those that then believed on him as their Redeemer, they saw his day and were glad, they prayed in his name, they had an eye to him in all the Types and Figures which were of him: for that was a truth from the beginning, Acts 4.12. Neither is there Salvation in any other.
2. There was a peculiar opening of it after such time as Christ had wrought out the work of Redemption for us. The word of God is wont to make mention of things as if they were ⟨p. 34⟩new, when there is a new manner of the Dispensation of them, or when there are very eminent degrees of the manifestation of them unto men: Now, with respect to the opening of this fountain, it was thus after Christ had finished the great affair of satisfying the Justice of God for us, and went to his glory; and that in two regards;