Christ All in All: Christ is our Fountain

I'm reading a series of sermons by Philip Henry (Matthew Henry the Bible Commentator's father), and thought I would share some quotes as I go along. Using the book "Christ All in All" as a devotional, I'm reading just one sermon a day, but each one is full of rich doctrine!


In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of  Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.                                                 —ZECHARIAH 13:1

"Is your soul athirst? Athirst for peace, pardon, life, salvation, for grace, strength? Here is a fountain for you."

"This fountain also is cleansing. Sin defiles, leaves a blot, a stain on the soul. It is uncleanness...From that we are washed by the blood of Christ, satisfying God's justice and making atonement, also purging the conscience."

"Here is a holy well indeed, and holy water indeed, that makes them holy, holy, that are washed in it. However unclean before, if washed with the grace of Christ, that uncleanness is done away. We are made partakers of the divine nature, not in perfection at first, but by degrees, renewed more and more till presented without spot to God, faultless. Oh, the rare virtue that is in this fountain. It makes a sinner a saint."

"It has pleased the Father to lay Him open. He is not an enclosed fountain, but a common fountain—as a common propitiation, so a common fountain, as commas as the light or air. Open and common to all persons, Jew and Gentile, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free. Whosoever will may come."