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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.
12. The Father is the Root and Foundation of Grace, as it is the Effect of his free Love and Favour; and every Grace is part of the Divine Nature, in it there is an imitation of one or other of the Divine Attributes, and it exemplifies the Divine Perfections in its Operations: The Design of God in infusing of his Grace into our Souls, is to show forth his Virtues, or his Praise and Glory, in all the Parts of it, and doth glorify one or another Attribute of God.2
12. The Father is the Root and Foundation of Grace, as it is the Effect of his free Love and Favour; and every Grace is part of the Divine Nature, in it there is an imitation of one or other of the Divine Attributes, and it exemplifies the Divine Perfections in its Operations: The Design of God in infusing of his Grace into our Souls, is to shew forth his Vertues, or his Praise and Glory, in all the Parts of it, and doth glorify one or another Attribute of God.2
- 1God the Father is the Foundation of Grace.
- 21 Pet. 2. 9.
13. What is Grace, and the Work of Grace in the Soul, but God's Workmanship, which as you have heard, he hath showed ⟨p. 290⟩much Skill and heavenly Wisdom about, and also hath been at more Cost to effect in us, than in making the World; he will not therefore suffer that Work to be marred and brought to nought: We are his Workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good Works. Did