A47542:1090
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.
9. Again, I might argue thus; Those that Christ did not pray for, he did not die for; those that he never would put up one Prayer, one Sigh to the Father for, certainly he never purchased Remission of Sins and Eternal Life for: I pray for them, I pray not 1for the World; but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. Now it is easy to know what World it was Christ prayed not for; namely, those that were not given to him by the Father; for all that were of the World, that did belong to the Election of Grace, though then under the Power of Sin and Unbelief, he did pray for: Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall 2believe on me through their Words: the Elect, whilst Sinners, may be called the World as well as any others.
- 1Joh. 17. 9.
- 2Ver. 20.
10. If Christ died for all, he intended to save all: But Christ did not intend to save all; therefore he did not die for all. Strange! will any say our Lord Jesus did that which was contrary to his Purpose and Intention? And if it was his Intention to save all, who could frustrate him in it? Why then are not all saved? Sirs, the Death of Christ cannot extend to the Salvation of any one Soul, further than the Intention and Purpose of God, or the Election of the Father, and Application of the Holy Spirit.
10. If Christ died for all, he intended to save all: But Christ did not intend to save all; therefore he did not die for all. Strange! will any say our Lord Jesus did that which was contrary to his Purpose and Intertion? And if it was his Intention to save all, who could frustrate him in it? Why then are not all saved? Sirs, the Death of Christ cannot extend to the Salvation of any one Soul, further than the Intention and Purpose of God, or the Election of the Father, and Application of the Holy Spirit.