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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.
4. This may also serve to reprehend such who strive to cast Reproach upon this Holy Doctrine, and such that maintain it as if it tended to encourage People in Sin, or open a Door to Licentiousness: Let all for ever forbear such Reflections; Is not this the Purport of that Doctrine which we vindicate?
4. This may also serve to reprehend such who strive to cast Reproach upon this Holy Doctrine, and such that maintain it as if it tended to incourage People in Sin, or open a Door to Licentiousness: Let all for ever forbear such Reflections; Is not this the Purport of that Doctrine which we vindicate?
(1.) That there is wrought and preserved in the Minds and Souls of all Believers, by the Holy Spirit, a Supernatural Principle of Grace and Holiness, whereby they are made meet, and enabled to live unto God, and discharge all Duties of Obedience which he requireth of them, and accepteth through Christ; which Principle or Habit of Grace is essentially distinct from all Natural Habits, Intellectual and Moral, however, and by what Means so ever acquired or improved.
(1.) That there is wrought and preserved in the Minds and Souls of all Believers, by the Holy Spirit, a Supernatural Principle of Grace and Holiness, whereby they are made meet, and enabled to live unto God, and discharge all Duties of Obedience which he requireth of them, and accepteth through Christ; which Principle or Habit of Grace is essentiaily distinct from all Natural Habits, Intellectual and Moral, however, and by what Means so ever acquired or improved.
(2.) That the Holy Spirit by his effectual Operations, doth enable us, according as we are required by his immediate Influences, in all Acts of Obedience; whether internal only in Faith and Love, &c. or External also; even so, that all the Powers of our Souls, and Members of our Bodies, are or ought to be in a spiritual manner governed and influenced thereby, and unto all Duties of Holiness, in our daily walking with God: and that all this is the Effect of God's Free-Grace to us in Jesus Christ, who hath communicated of the Spirit without measure, to our Blessed Head and Mediator, that he may give it forth to all his Saints that have Union with him, and believe in him.