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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.
Secondly, Reconciliation, from hence it doth appear is also another 1Effect of Christ's Death. The Design of God was to bring us to Happiness; and this he doth as the Effects of the Death of his own Son the Lord Jesus, who hath made our Peace by the Blood of his Cross. He hath reconciled both Jews and Gentiles to God in one Body, having slain the Enmity thereby. Divine Justice, you heard the last Day, has nothing to charge upon God's Elect, because it is Christ that died.2
- 1Reconciliation the Effect of Christ's Death. Eph. 2. 16.
- 2Rom. 8. 34.
1. Observe; Christ's Death hath reconciled God to us: When we were Enemies, we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son.1
2. And then also, as an Effect and Fruit of his Death, he having obtained the Spirit for us, we are actually reconciled to God: And thus our Days-man lays his Hands upon both; he brings God to us, and us to God; he is not the Mediator of one, but God is one: There is one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ