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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. A Man naturally dead cannot move, all power of Motion and Activity, or all vital Actings are gone also. So in Men spiritually dead, there is a Disability or Impotency unto all spiritual things to be performed in a spiritual manner; they can perform or act spiritually no Act of Life, or do any thing that is absolutely accepted of him: The carnal Mind is Enmity against God; it is not 1subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be.—So then they that are in the Flesh cannot please God.
3. A Man naturally dead cannot breath nor speak, no more can carnal Men: Men spiritually dead breath forth their Desires in Prayer to God, they have no Tongue to speak for God, or to pray to God acceptably; all they do is dead Service, all their Prayers and Works, are dead Prayers, dead Works, because performed from Persons spiritually dead, and not from a Principle of Divine Life.
4. A dead Man can't feel, see, nor hear: No more can such who are dead in Sin, they cannot feel spiritually, they have a heavy Burden, a mighty Weight of Sin, Guilt and Wrath lying upon them, but feel it not: They are grievously wounded, but feel no pain, do not cry out; think they are well, and all nothing: They cannot see spiritual Objects, nor spiritual Things. These Dead see not Jesus Christ, see not his Beauty, his Glory; neither the Want of him, nor the Worth of him; the Eye of their Understanding is darkened, they have no Faith, which is the Eye of the new Creature: Nor can they hear in a spiritual Sense, until,