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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.
Brethren, pray observe, here is mention four times of all the Sins of the Children of Israel, all their Iniquities, all their Transgressions, all their Sins. And again, the Goat shall bear upon him all their Iniquities. The Goat was a Type of Christ, to show that not one Sin of a Child of God shall ever be laid upon him, charged upon him, because Christ had them all laid upon him: and he hath carried them all away, all their Sins, great Sins as well as smaller Sins; Sins before Grace and after Grace were all laid ⟨p. 243⟩upon Jesus Christ; yea, Sins of all sorts, Sins of Commission and Sins of Omission; no Sin could be expiated without the Death and Blood of Christ: Also a full and free Confession was to be made upon the Head of the Scape-Goat of all Sins. Brethren, as the smallest Sins needed such a Sacrifice, such an Atonement, namely, the Death of Christ, so the greatest Sins were not excluded from that Atonement and blessed Benefit of his Death.
Brethren, pray observe, here is mention four times of all the Sins of the Children of Israel, all their Iniquities, all their Transgressions, all their Sins. And again, the Goat shall bear upon him all their Iniquities. The Goat was a Type of Christ, to shew that not one Sin of a Child of God shall ever be laid upon him, charged upon him, because Christ had them all laid upon him: and he hath carried them all away, all their Sins, great Sins as well as smaller Sins; Sins before Grace and after Grace were all laid ⟨p. 243⟩upon Jesus Christ; yea, Sins of all sorts, Sins of Commission and Sins of Omission; no Sin could be expiated without the Death and Blood of Christ: Also a full and free Confession was to be made upon the Head of the Scape-Goat of all Sins. Brethren, as the smallest Sins needed such a Sacrifice, such an Atonement, namely, the Death of Christ, so the greatest Sins were not excluded from that Atonement and blessed Benefit of his Death.
Moreover, the Scape-Goat carried all their Sins away into the Wilderness, or into an unknown Land, or into a Land of Forgetfulness, never to be remembered any more; this hath our Lord Jesus done: Christ hath put away Sin, and put it away for ever, and that by the Sacrifice of himself once for all: He hath laid on him the