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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.
(4.) If we consider the wonderful and amazing Wrath he bore, what a Curse he was made for us; the wonderful Horror, Pain, and Anguish he felt; the wonderful Sweat he sustained, which were great Drops of Blood; the wonderful Passion and Sufferings on the Cross he endured: He loved us, and washed us from our Sins 1in his own Blood He loved his Sheep, his People, his Spouse, as himself, above himself: Mary loved him so as to wash his Feet with her Tears; but he loved Mary so, and all his Elect Ones, as to wash their Souls in his own most precious Blood. Jacob loved Benjamin, David loved Absalom; but David said, Jonathan's Love to him was wonderful, passing the Love of Women. But what is a Bubble to the Ocean! a Spark of Fire to a Furnace! or a finite Love to an infinite Love! What is all Love to Christ's Love?
(5.) Christ's Love to his Sheep, to his Elect, is wonderful; because it passeth knowledge: That ye may know the Love of Christ, 1that passeth Knowledge. 1. It passeth the Knowledge of the Natural Man. What can he, with all his natural and acquired Parts find out, as to the greatness and wonderfulness of Christ's Love? 2. It passeth the Knowledge of the Moral Man. What can the Natural or the Moral Philosopher do, as to the comprehending, finding out, or demonstrating the Nature of Christ's Love? Can he sound the Depth of the Sea? Can he measure the Breadth of the Heavens? Can he account the Length of Eternity? Besides, here is a Height that their Art discovers not; the Mathematics teacheth not this Mystery: That ye may be able to comprehend 2with all Saints, what is the Breadth and Length, the Depth and Height, and to know the Love of Christ that passeth Knowledge. 3. It passeth the Knowledge of the Spiritual Man; he cannot arrive to a full and perfect understanding of it. 4. Nay it passeth the Knowledge of the Holy Angels; their Wisdom and Understanding no doubt is wonderful; but here they are at a loss, they stand in amaze, looking into, and admiring with astonishment, this Love, to see him that is God become Man, to