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A66100	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. I. / by Samuel Willard ...	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2277; ESTC R38934	107,750	216

there is a Legal Repentance before Conversion yet that which is Evangelical follows upon it and is no further pleasing to God than as it is exercised by faith but in respect to order of time the man repents and believes at once and so they are together It is a penitent Faith and a believing Repentance that is exerted they are therefore conjoyned Acts 20. 21. Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ 7. For the right exerting of these Graces there is the exercise of a Spirit of Mourning and of Supplication There is a principle of this or there is such a Spirit habitually put into the man when he is new made but the improvement of it is in the practising of Faith and Repentance Here then 1. For the exerting of true Repentance he draws out a Spirit of mourning In Repentance we turn from sin to God in which turning there is not only an abstinence from the outward acts but a cordial renouncing and forsaking of those sins which we rightly repent of and for that end we must be made to see them to be evil and mischievous and that we have foolishly turned from God to them the genuine effect whereof upon the heart is to bemoan our selves by reason of them and hence the Scripture annexeth mourning unto Repentance as an inseparable concomitant of ● hence that in Jer. 31. 18. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning of himself c. And for the producing of this mourning God offers the conviction of the evil and bitterness then is in our sins Jer. 2 19. Know and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God c. Now there are two passages to be observed in this mourning 1. He bewails all his Sins Godly Sorrow is for Sin that is the procuring cause of all the sorrows that poor man is exposed unto and is therefore that which peculiarly calls for our mourning and this belongs to that sorrow which the Apostle tells us is so serviceable to true Repentance 2 Cor. 7. 10 Godly sorrow worketh repentance not to be repented of It is by this that we embitter sin to our selves and stir up in us an hatred of it for though sorrow be a mixt Affection yet it mainly partakes of hatred which is a separating affection and makes us to reject the Object of it Now if this sorrow be genuine it is universal it bears a respect to all sin because if it be right it is excited by the apprehension of the great evil there is in sin in the nature as well as in the effects of it which evil being in all sin it must needs extend to all hence that Psalm 119. 104. I hate every false way and where this hatred is there will be Sorrow for our having hurt our selves by it and therein dishonoured God 2. He more peculiarly laments the affronts that be hath offered to Christ who hath been set before him in the tenders of Grace This therefore is peculiarly remarked in Zech. 12. 10. They shall 〈◊〉 upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only Son and be in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for his first born Where the Gospel comes and Christ is exhibited together with the need that men have of him by reason of ●in the convictions whereof are laid before men to perswade them of the necessity they stand in of having him to be their Saviour and men have made light of these invitations which have been given them they have not been perswaded of their misery by Sin and brought to accept of Christ to rescue them from it and have accordingly despised him neglected him chosen lying vanities before him and remained in their unbelief This is the great provocation under the Gospel Joh. 3. 19. This is the Condemnation that light is come into the world and men chuse darkness rather than light This Sin therefore they shall peculiarly mourn for and resent with the greatest sorrow 2. For the exercising of Faith this Spirit of mourning is ever accompanied with a Spirit of Supplication The first breathings and breakings forth of faith are in prayer When once Paul was Converted that is the next news we hear of him Acts 9. 11. Behold he prayeth This is the first sign by which the new born Christian discovers that he hath life in him True Prayer supposeth a principle of faith in the man ●or only such a prayer as is spirited with it is acceptable to and prevalent with God Jam. 5. 16. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much compare Chap. 1. 5 6. Let him ask of God but let him ask ●● faith God hath therefore made it a medium for our participation in the blessings engaged in the New Covenant Ezek. 36. 37. I will yet be enquired of for this by the House of Israel to do it for them In which prayer 1. He confesseth and bewaileth his sins before God Confession of sin is if not an essential part yet an inseparable adjunct of prayer by which sinful man addresseth God for mercy hence the promise so runs Prov. 28. 13. He that confesseth and forsaketh shall find mercy And for this reason when God invites back sliders to return and promiseth them acceptance he enters that caution Jer. 3. 13. Only acknowledge thine iniquity Nor indeed can we rightly come to Christ for a pardon and cleansing unless we lay open our malady before him so that there is a tacit confession of Sin in the very petitions that are put up on this account but God expects that in our solemn addressing of him we be explicit in it Levit. 26. 40. If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their tres●oss c. 2. He requests his Converting Grace There must be a root of Conversion in the man before he can sincerely desire or petition to be Converted and indeed gracious mourning confession and supplication do follow after that inward and transforming work of the Spirit in the man Jer. 31. 19. After that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed c However in the actual turning of the Soul to God the man finds that it is not in his own power to turn himself but that he must have it given him of God and accordingly he asks it of him thus did Ephraim verse 18. Turn thou me and I shall be turned and God directs Israel to use such words Hos 14. 2. Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously and these cries are drawn forth by the efficac● o● preventing Grace 3 He professeth his acceptance of and relianc● upon Christ for Salvation He acknowledge th● that Christ is an All sufficient Saviour that there is a fulness of vertue in this foun●ain to take away all Sin and Uncleanness from