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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.
Object. But Christ says, I give them Eternal Life; He speaks in the Present Tense.
Answ. 1. I answer; you heard before that true and saving Grace is the Seed of Eternal Life, or the Seed of Glory to come, as Glory is the Harvest of Grace.
2. Spiritual Life is the earnest of Eternal Life. Now every Believer hath received the Spirit, which is the Earnest of their Eternal 1Inheritance: And thus they have it, as a Man that purchases an Inheritance, he gives Earnest for it; and no sooner that is done, but he cries, such a House, or such Land, is mine; 'tis his by virtue of the Earnest given, though he hath not yet the actual possession of it: so it is here.