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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.
From the whole I infer,—If the Love of Jesus Christ is an early Love, a Love of Complacency; if it be a wonderful and amazing 1Love; if it be an immense, infinite, and incomprehensible Love; if it is a conjugal Love, an attracting and retaining Love, a free and abiding Love, which he hath to every Believer; then he will not ever let go that hold he hath of every one of them, so as to suffer them to fall from him, as eternally to perish: But such is the Nature of the Love of Jesus Christ; therefore he will never so let go that hold he hath of every Believer, as to suffer them to fall so as eternally to perish.
- 1The General Argument.
Brethren, such is the Love of Christ to his Saints, as that he 1gives them special Tokens and Assurance of his Eternal Favour.
- 1Christ's special Love-Tokens.
Some of them are these following. 1. He calls them with an effectual and special Calling. 2. He renews them, and stamps his own Image upon them.1 3. He puts his Holy Spirit into them. 4. He justifies them freely by his own Grace, giving them his own Robe of Righteousness, which is beyond a Garment of Cloth 2of Gold. 5. He sanctifies them, and endows them with Power to mortify