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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
THE BLESSEDNESS OF Christ's Sheep, &c. › JOHN X. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice, and they follow me.
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.
2dly. He must be Man; because he must die, which the Godhead could not do; yea, he must be Man in our Nature, that he might satisfy the Justice of God for us, because the Righteousness of God requires, that the same Nature which had sinned, should make a full Compensation to the Law of God and infinite Justice. O take heed no Man shakes your Faith in this great Article of the Christian Religion.
3dly. Take heed also that you abide steadfast in the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction, which dependeth on the former. Such who deny Christ's Deity, must disown that plenary Satisfaction he gave to the Law and Justice of God. Beware of Socinianism, Quakerism, &c. and all such like Errors.
3dly. Take heed also that you abide stedfast in the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction, which dependeth on the former. Such who deny Christ's Deity, must disown that plenary Satisfaction he gave to the Law and Justice of God. Beware of Socinianism, Quakerism, &c. and all such like Errors.
4thly. Take heed, there are some who tell you, Christ has fully satisfied for the Breach of the Law of the first Covenant, for the Sins of the whole World; so that all Men are cured of that Sickness, and delivered from that Curse, and put into a Capacity to be saved, if they will but exercise the Power of their own Will and Abilities; and that Men have power to believe and be regenerated, that sit under the preaching of the Gospel; and if they answer and discharge their part in Salvation, Christ's Death will become effectual to them, it being but on this Condition that Christ Jesus died to save Men, provided they answer those Terms the Gospel offers: Whereas it's evident, that Christ is not the End of the Law, as touching Righteousness to any Man, but only to such as believe, (I speak of the Adult); and the Gospel is not our Sickness, but our Cure; that condemns not, but as the healing Remedy is rejected, and the Curse of the Law abides upon all Unbelievers. And it is also as evident, that Man by Nature is dead in Sin, and must by an almighty and irresistible Power be quickened; which is done by the infusion of a Principle of Divine Life. Faith is God's Gift, and not the Condition of the Covenant of Grace; it is a Branch, or part of that Grace promised therein, upon the Condition of Christ's Satisfaction, not the Condition to be performed by the Creature, which procures the Blessings purchased; therefore no Condition then in order and connection in the Promises, that God will enable all his Elect to perform, by bestowing that Blessing upon them freely by his own Grace. The whole of our Salvation is by Christ; It is by Faith, that it might be by Grace, to the end the Promise might be sure to all the Seed; and all boasting might be excluded.