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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.
3. Christ gives his Saints Eternal Life. Now because he gives them a sure Title to it, he makes them a Deed of Gift of it; or seals unto them a Right, and legal Conveyance of it, as firm as the Law and Ordinance of Heaven. Now when a Person hath a true Right and Title, or Deed of Gift, made and sealed to him of such or such an Estate, he may say he has the Estate, 'tis his own. And thus Believers have Everlasting Life, or the Eternal Inheritance, i. e. they have a true Right and Title of it sealed to them here by the Holy Spirit: After that ye believed, you were sealed with the Spirit of Promise, which is the Earnest of the Saints Inheritance, 1&c. Faith is the Evidence of things not seen.
4. The Spirit of God, who is that Principle of Divine Life in the Soul of Believers, is Eternal. Christ is in us; every Believer hath Christ in possession, and Christ is Eternal Life; and therefore he that hath the Son, hath Everlasting Life: These things have 1I written unto you that believe on the Name of the Son of God, that ye may know you have Eternal Life, &c. Jesus Christ being in us 2here, is more to us than the Hope of Glory, for he is Eternal Life*; and the Soul of a Child of God, shall never lose nor be dispossessed of Christ, no not by Death it self, therefore may be said to have Eternal Life. They have Eternal Life abiding in them, because they have the Spirit abiding in them; But the Water that I shall give him, shall be in him a Well of living Water, springing up unto Everlasting