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The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…
The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by S. Bridge, 1698
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.
11. God will not admit Sinners to receive any of his Special, Spiritual, Saving, and Soul-enriching Commodities, tho through his great Bounty and Goodness he doth give forth common Gifts, or Earthly good things to his Enemies.
11. God will not admit Sinners to receive any of his Special, Spiritual, Saving, and Soul-inriching Commodities, tho through his great Bounty and Goodness he doth give forth common Gifts, or Earthly good things to his Enemies.
- 1What is meant by the interruption of our Trading with God.
2. Nor will God receive of Man any thing that he hath, or can do, or offer to him, until ⟨p. 260⟩his Peace is made, and his Person accepted in his sight, for Sinners Hearts being departed from God, their very Prayers, and all their Services are Abomination unto him, and hateful in his Sight: So that all ways of Blessed Intercourse betwixt God and Man, were stopped up,1 and the Streams of that River, by which all Spiritual Blessings must come to them, are stayed, viz. the Holy Spirit: besides Thieves, Pirates, and Robbers were let out upon them, I mean Satan, and all the Powers of Darkness; and thus was Mankind brought to utter Beggary, for all their original Riches, or Righteousness, and Blessed Treasure was utterly consumed by means of that first Act of Rebellion; nor was there any ways left to Mankind to get one Penny to help or relieve themselves in their Necessity.
2. Nor will God receive of Man any thing that he hath, or can do, or offer to him, until