A47542:1343
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.
3. But should it be an Evangelical good Conscience, and they be sincere Christians; What of this? May not a true Believer make a Breach upon a good Conscience, by falling into Temptation? As concerning making Shipwreck, that says the Text was concerning Faith; and those Persons being delivered to Satan by Excommunication, it was, that they might not learn to blaspheme, and might therefore be restored again: and nothing to the contrary doth appear it is evident from the Text, therefore in vain it is brought to prove a final falling away.
3. But should it be an Evangelical good Conscience, and they be sincere Christians; What of this? May not a true Believer make a Breach upon a good Conscience, by falling into Temptation? As concerning making Shipwrack, that says the Text was concerning Faith; and those Persons being delivered to Satan by Excommunication, it was, that they might not learn to blaspheme, and might therefore be restored again: and nothing to the contrary doth appear it is evident from the Text, therefore in vain it is brought to prove a final falling away.
Object. 11. But a Righteous Man may turn from his Righteousness, 1and die in his Sin: And if so, then Believers may fall away finally.
Answ. There is a twofold Righteousness spoken of in the Scriptures. 1st. A Moral and Legal Righteousness. 2dly. A Gospel or Evangelical Righteousness.