A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

And in these days, what Reason can be alleged, why we, and a few Nations more, have the Knowledge of the Gospel, when the greatest part of the Earth lie in Popish, Mahometan, and Pagan Darkness, but that it is his good pleasure so to do? He hath Mercy on whom he will have Mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.¹

And in these days, what Reason can be alledged, why we, and a few Nations more, have the Knowledg of the Gospel, when the greatest part of the Earth lie in Popish, Mahometan, and Pagan Darkness, but that it is his good pleasure so to do? He hath Mercy on whom he will have Mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.¹

1. 1Rom. 9. 18.

2. Praise God for the Knowledge you have of the Mysteries of Christ, and the Gospel of Free-Grace: Brethren next unto the Grace of God in my Conversion, I have often said, I do look upon my self bound to admire the Riches of God's Love and Goodness to me, in opening my Eyes to see those Arminian Errors, ⟨p. 315⟩which when I was Young, I had from some Men of corrupt Principles sucked in; nay, and when I was about 23 Years Old, I wrote a little Book for Children, in which some of those Errors were vindicated; which after, my Eyes were enlightened, and the Book with Alterations being again Reprinted, I left out, and now do declare my dislike of the first Impressions, and do disown what I there asserted: When I was a Child, I thought as a Child, I understood as a Child, as the Apostle speaks. And let me entreat you to study the Nature of the Covenant of Grace; for until I had that opened unto me, I was ignorant of the Mysteries of the Gospel.