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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. The Knowledge of Christ's Love, will beget greater and stronger Love in our Souls to him: Love begetteth Love, but not till it is known. O taste, Sinners, of this Love: had you but a Taste, how would your Hearts be inflamed in Love to Jesus Christ. And as to you Saints,
4. The Knowledg of Christ's Love, will beget greater and stronger Love in our Souls to him: Love begetteth Love, but not till it is known. O taste, Sinners, of this Love: had you but a Taste, how would your Hearts be enflamed in Love to Jesus Christ. And as to you Saints,
5. The more you know of Christ's Love, the more your Hearts will die (and your Love cool) to all earthly things.
6. The more you know of Christ's Love, the more firmly you will be fixed and settled in his Truth, and be delivered from Fears and Doubts about your standing. Alas, it is not Sin, nor Satan, nor Hell, nor Death, that can deprive your Souls of Christ's Love, if you are his. If Satan says, Thou art a vile Sinner, and lays before thee the Baseness of thy Heart; tell him, Christ's Love passeth Knowledge. Does he say, that thou wilt fall one time or another? Tell him, Christ loved thee not for thy Righteousness; and his Love that is so infinite, will never suffer thee to fall and rise no more.
6. The more you know of Christ's Love, the more firmly you will be fixed and setled in his Truth, and be delivered from Fears and Doubts about your standing. Alas, it is not Sin, nor Satan, nor Hell, nor Death, that can deprive your Souls of Christ's Love, if you are his. If Satan says, Thou art a vile Sinner, and lays before thee the Baseness of thy Heart; tell him, Christ's Love passeth Knowledg. Does he say, that thou wilt fall one time or another? Tell him, Christ loved thee not for thy Righteousness; and his Love that is so infinite, will never suffer thee to fall and rise no more.