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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.
9. It doth cast a Disgrace upon the Wisdom of God, in contriving no better a way for the Restoration of Man, and his Establishment, but that which dependeth wholly upon the voluble and inconstant Temper of the Creatures corrupt Will to perfect in them.
10. Such who assert that those may eternally perish whom Christ died for, or in the stead of, seem to charge God with Injustice, as not to acquit those whose Transgressions are answered for by their Surety; or else that the Sufferings of Christ were not sufficient to effect a Discharge due to them: Or doth it not insinuate (as one notes) a Deficiency of Power, or want of good 1Will in Christ to prosecute his design to Perfection?
- 1Practical Discourse, pag. 125.
11. It suspends the Virtue and Success of all that Christ hath done for Men, upon some thing to be done by themselves, which Christ is not the doer of; and consequently, that Men are Principals in procuring their own Salvation: And so Christ shall have his Thousands, (in truth saith he his Nothings) whilst freedom of Will (or he might have said Free-Will) shall have his Ten thousands. Is this to exalt the Lord alone, or to raise and sing the Praises of our Beloved David? And further,