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A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…
A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers, and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners containing the substance of near forty sermons upon several subjects / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by the author, 1694
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.
Answ. I answer; Do not these Men think that Christ did not die for Sins committed against the Gospel, and for the Sin of Unbelief, even for all such Sins that a Believer does commit after Grace and Regeneration, as well as Sins against the Law, or Sins committed before they were renewed? Alas, how long do some of God's Elect Ones continue in a State of Unbelief, and refuse the Offers of the Gospel, before they do believe and close with Christ? Why now, if Christ did not die for those Sins, (which were committed against the Gospel) as also for the Sins they do commit after they are in a State of Grace, there is not one Soul can be saved, because without shedding of Blood there is no remission; 1that is, without the shedding of Christ's Blood: It is the Blood of 2Jesus Christ his Son, that cleanseth us from all Sin. Christ satisfied the Justice of God for all the Sins a Child of God hath, doth, or ever shall commit against him, Original and Actual, from the Day of his Birth, unto the Day of his Death. So that if a Believer perishes for any Sin or Sins, he perishes for that Sin or Sins for which Christ died, and suffered for in his stead.
- 1Heb. 9. 22.
- 21 John 1. 11.
Object. I like not, say some, your Notion, viz. That Christ died in our stead or room: For though he died for our good, yet not in our stead, I doubt of that: And if you can make it appear that he so died for us as you affirm, namely, in the room or stead of all his Elect, then your Argument is not to be answered.