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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.
Beloved, the Sacrifice of Christ unites all the Holy Attributes together to secure a Believer's Interest; Justice and Mercy are both agreed in Christ, they meet together, and kiss each other, yea, and join Hands to help and save every Believer. The Floodgates of Mercy are opened, and the Fire of Divine Wrath confined in its Flames, or rather quenched by the Streams of Christ's Blood, that Mercy might flow down to us abundantly: Christ's Blood hath eternal Virtue in it, it is called the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, therefore extendeth to the Expiation of Sins to come, as well as what are already past. Christ's Death hath glorious Effects, as the Apostle shows: For if the Blood of Bulls and Goats, and Ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the Flesh; how much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself to God, purge your Consciences from dead Works to serve the living God? To talk of Christ's Death, and see no Effects of it, alas, what's that? All that Christ died for, shall see and feel too its Glorious Effects and Operations upon their Souls and Consciences; though the Sacrifice be over, the Virtue and excellent Causality of it abides for ever.
Beloved, the Sacrifice of Christ unites all the Holy Attributes together to secure a Believer's Interest; Justice and Mercy are both agreed in Christ, they meet together, and kiss each other, yea, and join Hands to help and save every Believer. The Floodgates of Mercy are opened, and the Fire of Divine Wrath confin'd in its Flames, or rather quenched by the Streams of Christ's Blood, that Mercy might flow down to us abundantly: Christ's Blood hath eternal Virtue in it, it is called the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, therefore extendeth to the Expiation of Sins to come, as well as what are already past. Christ's Death hath glorious Effects, as the Apostle shews: For if the Blood of Bulls and Goats, and Ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the Flesh; how much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself to God, purge your Consciences from dead Works to serve the living God? To talk of Christ's Death, and see no Effects of it, alas, what's that? All that Christ died for, shall see and feel too its Glorious Effects and Operations upon their Souls and Consciences; though the Sacrifice be over, the Virtue and excellent Causality of it abides for ever.