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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.
Reader, I have since these Sermons were printed off, met with a Book wrote by a Person, whom I both esteem and honour, (excepting his Opinion) entitled, A Treatise touching Falling Away; wherein he endeavours to answer some of our Arguments: Had I met with it sooner, I had given a particular Reply; but in the general he may find he hath here an Answer to what he hath said. He endeavours to prove the Elect may be deceived; which we deny not, though not finally deceived; for that our Saviour intimates to be impossible: And to say, none are the Elect but they whose Warfare is finished, seems strange to me; and to suppose the New Covenant ⟨image 3⟩spoken of Jer. 31. refers to the Jews only when called at the latter Days, is not true, but is contradicted by the Apostle, Heb. 8. Heb. 10. Our Argument, That Sin cannot separate from God's Love, is here also fully cleared: As also what he says, That Christ's Sheep may cease following him, and so fall out of his Hand, I have answered likewise: It is the Property of such, they do and shall follow him; God has put his Fear into our Hearts, and we shall not depart from him. Moreover, the Absurdities that he pretends, do attend the Doctrine of Final Perseverance, I find I have taken off, though I saw not his Book.
Reader, I have since these Sermons were printed off, met with a Book wrote by a Person, whom I both esteem and honour, (excepting his Opinion) entituled, A Treatise touching Falling Away; wherein he endeavours to answer some of our Arguments: Had I met with it sooner, I had given a particular Reply; but in the general he may find he hath here an Answer to what he hath said. He endeavours to prove the Elect may be deceived; which we deny not, though not finally deceived; for that our Saviour intimates to be impossible: And to say, none are the Elect but they whose Warfare is finished, seems strange to me; and to suppose the New Covenant ⟨image 3⟩spoken of Jer. 31. refers to the Jews only when called at the latter Days, is not true, but is contradicted by the Apostle,