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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.
1. Life and Salvation is of Grace in opposition to Nature, we have it not as the Product of Nature: Which were born, not of Blood, nor of the Will of the Flesh, nor of the Will of Man, but of God. To 1be born, signifies to receive a Principle of Life; and those that are the Children of God, have not that spiritual Life that is in them, from the Motions or Powers of Nature; not from the Power of Man's Will, nor from their fleshly or natural Parts and Abilities, however improved.
2. Life and Salvation is wholly of Grace, or a free Gift, in opposition to Merit; we cannot purchase or procure it by our Acts of Obedience: By Grace are ye saved through Faith, and that not 1