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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.
2. Nay they partake not only of common Gifts, but common Grace also, even such Grace that doth reform their Lives, bridle, restrain, and curb their inordinate Lusts and Passions; so that through the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, they esteeming him as their Blessed Saviour, they are said to escape the Pollution of the World, as Peter plainly declares, though afterwards they are again 1entangled therein and overcome.
2. Nay they partake not only of common Gifts, but common Grace also, even such Grace that doth reform their Lives, bridle, restrain, and curb their inordinate Lusts and Passions; so that through the Knowledg of Jesus Christ, they esteeming him as their Blessed Saviour, they are said to escape the Pollution of the World, as Peter plainly declares, though afterwards they are again 1intangled therein and overcome.
3. They did no doubt by the Assistance of the Holy Spirit, leave and forsake those evil Ways, and profane Courses and Practices in which they lived before: May be they were gross Idolaters, Adulterers, Blasphemers, &c. but the Spirit by its common Operations did so far strive and prevail with them, that they became other Men: As it is said of King Saul, The Spirit of God will 1come upon thee, and thou shalt be turned into another Man, but not a new Man; And God gave him another Heart.
3. They did no doubt by the Assistance of the Holy Spirit, leave and forsake those evil Ways, and prophane Courses and Practices in which they lived before: May be they were gross Idolaters, Adulterers, Blasphemers, &c. but the Spirit by its common Operations did so far strive and prevail with them, that they became other Men: As it is said of King Saul, The Spirit of God will