A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

It is also contrary, as you have heard, unto express Texts of Scripture, wherein effectual Conversion, and final Perseverance is wholly ascribed unto the special Grace of God, as the immediate Effect thereof; God worketh in us to will and to do. The Act therefore it self in our Conversion, is of God's Operation; and though we will our selves, yet it is he who causeth us to will, by working in us to will and to do But if the Act of our Will in Believing and Obedience, in our Conversion and Perseverance, be not the effect of God's special Grace in us, then God doth not work in us, both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure.

Thirdly. The Covenant of Grace secures all Christ's Sheep, all his Saints, from falling away so as eternally to perish, because the Covenant of Grace is an Everlasting Covenant, well ordered in all ¹things and sure: Not only well ordered in all things for the Glory of God, in all his blessed Attributes, but also for the Happiness, Safety and Security of all their Souls that the Father gave unto Jesus Christ.

1. 1• Sam. 23. 5.

1. It is well ordered for our Good, in that Christ hath pacified the Wrath of God thereby for us. Christ hath, by the Blood of his Covenant, made up that great Breach that was between God and us. So that now God says unto his People, Fury is not in me. See what Paul says, When we were Enemies, ¹we were reconciled unto God by the Death of his Son: And by his Spirit he reconciles us, he slays and subdues the Enmity that naturally was in our Hearts against God. Christ in this Covenant (it is so well ordered) is that blessed Days-man that lays his Hand upon both, he brings God to Man, and Man to God: We were the Children of Wrath, and under the