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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.
The Sum of that I drive at is this, viz. There is a necessity we must be justified and saved by Grace only, because we cannot be saved by a Law of Obedience, but by Christ and Grace alone: If we sly not to Christ by trusting, believing, and depending on him, and the Grace of God in him, who hath satisfied the Justice and Law of God for us, and brought in Everlasting Righteousness, the Law of God will cut us down and throw us into Hell for ever.
2. It is by Grace alone that we are saved, because all boasting is excluded, and cause of boasting. And this is the Design of God in the Gospel. viz. That Man might not have whereof to glory, but in the Lord alone: Nor could this be done any other way, but by his contriving our Salvation to be wholly by his own free Grace. Where is boasting then? it is excluded; by what Law? of Works; nay, but by the Law of Faith, not of Works, lest any Man should boast.1
3. It is only by Grace that we are saved, or Eternal Life is the free Gift of God, and Gift of Christ; because he will have all the 1Glory of it: God will not give the Glory of our Salvation unto others. Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Jesus 2Christ according to the good Pleasure of his Will, to the Praise of the Glory of his Grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved.