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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. I answer, it is an Everlasting Love: The Lord appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an Everlasting Love, &c. It is a Love from Everlasting, therefore it must be a first Love, an early Love; and because he loved them from Eternity, he elected them from Eternity.
2. It is a firm Love a strong Love, an endeared Love, nay, an inconceivable Love: I in them, and thou in me; and that the World may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved 1me: A Love of the same Nature, of the same Quality. O! what is the Nature of that Love the Father hath to Jesus Christ? Who can conceive of it, much less express it? It is impossible for us to comprehend how firm, strong and endearing it is; but thus he loves all his Elect Ones: Christ as Mediator is the Object of the Father's Love, so are all his Members: The same Love that is let out to the Head, as to the Nature of it, is let out to his Mystical Body, and to every particular Member thereof.
3. The Father's Love is a Love of Delight: He is said to love others with a Love of Pity, but he loves his Saints with a Love of Complacency: He will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his 1Love; he will rejoice over thee with singing. He takes delight and satisfaction in his Love; not in our Love to him, but in his Love to us. Again, it is said, As the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so