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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.
5thly. There are others also that affirm, that Jesus Christ as Mediator, gave to God a valuable Consideration, or Recompense, 1that he might justly wave, and not execute the Law of perfect Obedience; and by his Merits purchased a new and milder Law of Grace: so that Christ's Righteousness hath only purchased the removing the Law of Works from being a Covenant of Life; and that our Right to Salvation, the Favour of God, and Peace of Conscience, does depend upon our Obedience to the Gospel, which Christ hath purchased, should be accepted for our Righteousness, by which we must be justified and judged: and that Faith in its whole latitude, is our believing and obeying the Gospel, or new Law, that by this we are made partakers of the Benefits of Christ, he having merited this Grant, or Law, That they who obey him sincerely should be saved; and that he is justified so far, and so long as he answers the Condition of this new Law of Grace.
5thly. There are others also that affirm, that Jesus Christ as Mediator, gave to God a valuable Consideration, or Recompence, 1that he might justly wave, and not execute the Law of perfect Obedience; and by his Merits purchased a new and milder Law of Grace: so that Christ's Righteousness hath only purchased the removing the Law of Works from being a Covenant of Life; and that our Right to Salvation, the Favour of God, and Peace of Conscience, does depend upon our Obedience to the Gospel, which Christ hath purchased, should be accepted for our Righteousness, by which we must be justified and judged: and that Faith in its whole latitude, is our believing and obeying the Gospel, or new Law, that by this we are made partakers of the Benefits of Christ, he having merited this Grant, or Law, That they who obey him sincerely should be saved; and that he is justified so far, and so long as he answers the Condition of this new Law of Grace.
- 1The new Doctrine, or rather new Gospel.