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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.
Fourthly, I shall proceed to show you what a taste of God, and 1of his good Word it is which all true Believers have.
Fourthly, I shall proceed to shew you what a taste of God, and 1of his good Word it is which all true Believers have.
- 1What a kind of taste a Believer hath of God and his Word. Psal. 42. 2.
1. 'Tis a taste that arises from Spiritual Hunger: There is a true sense of Want, they have a craving Appetite, and nothing but God in Christ can satisfy their Souls; My Soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, saith David. And hence it is that they are pronounced blessed; Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after Righteousness, 1for they shall be filled; not have only a taste, No, no, but they shall be filled, they shall eat to satisfaction. They see that they want a Righteousness whereby they may be declared Just and Righteous before God, namely, the Righteousness of Christ; and also a Righteousness that may declare them to be righteous before Men, namely, a holy and blameless Life: the one is the Righteousness of Justification, the other is the Righteousness of Sanctification. Others may have a taste of both these; they may behold a Worth in, and a Want of Christ's Righteousness, but do not hunger after it, and so accept it as a poor hunger-starved Person on Gospel-Terms; and may attain to some degree of inward as well as outward Sanctification.