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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.
Seventhly, Another Fruit and Effect of the Death of Christ, is, Redemption from all Iniquity: He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, &c. Tit. 2. 14. Therefore this Glorious Effect his Death shall have upon all Redeemed Ones; it ⟨p. 263⟩was not to redeem only from the Curse of the Law, as some talk, but from the Guilt, Pollution, Power and Punishment of Sin; therefore Believers shall never perish.
Eighthly, Justification is also another Effect of the Death and Resurrection of Christ; which is to acquit, absolve, and to pronounce us Righteous in God's Sight; God accepting us Righteous by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness which is ever the same. Now Christ's Death being the Meritorious Cause thereof, we are said to be justified by his Blood, Rom. 5. 9. And pray see the Apostle's Argument from hence; Much more then being now justified by his Blood, we shall be saved from Wrath through him: It is more to be reconciled and justified, than it is to be saved; such are justified, and Christ's Blood having done the former, will much more effect the latter: those that Christ justifies, he will glorify; nay, and his Death and Resurrection cannot be without this Effect: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, &c. The Word 1Justified is opposed to Condemnation; those that are justified, are justified for ever. Justification is not a gradual Act, as Sanctification is; it results not as the Fruits of our Repentance, or inherent Holiness, but as the Fruits of Christ's Death and Merits; it is never less nor more: as our Holiness cannot add any thing to it, so the Sins and Infirmities of true Believers, cannot diminish any thing from it; there may be additions to our inherent Sanctification, but not to our Justification: Christ rose again for our Justification. I may also challenge all the Men in the World to prove, that any Man that was justified in the sight of God, did ever fall away and come under Condemnation.