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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. These therefore taste and eat also, and that too out of pure Necessity: If I, saith the Soul, feed not upon Christ, eat not his Flesh, and drink not his Blood, I shall perish. Give me Christ or I shall die, is the Voice of this sort: Others take a taste, as if they cared not whether they eat or eat not.
3. A true Believer doth taste, eat, and also digest the Word; 'tis that which they live upon, and hereby they come to have Union with Christ by Faith: The Soul partakes of the Divine Nature. But a common Tasting, or a common Faith, or a bare Credence of the Truth of the Gospel, doth not do this, which the Persons in our Text only had.
4. The good Word of God is to all true Christians as their necessary Food; nay, esteemed more, or above their necessary Food, as Job experienced it; therefore to these the Word, and God in 1the Word, Christ in the Word, is exceeding sweet: How sweet is Food to a hungry Person? O says the Soul, the Lord is good, his Word is good, his Promises and his Ordinances are exceeding good; I can relish the Word of God, I esteem it above Gold; it is also ⟨p. 341⟩2sweeter than Honey, or the Honey-comb; I have an appetite to it: O how love I thy Law! it is my Meditation all the Day. This discovers 3to us the goodness of our Condition, when there is nothing that we value or esteem, love and delight in, above God's Word: Thy Words were found, and I did eat them, and thy Word was unto me