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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.
First, That they are begotten of God, appears from several Scriptures; Of his own Will beg at he us with the Word of Truth, &c. 1Merely by his own Grace, as the original Cause; with the Word by the Spirit, as the instrumental Means. Spiritual Generation is the Work of God, the Product of the Will of God, and not of the Will of Man: Which were born not of Blood, nor of the Will of the 2Flesh, nor of the Will of Man, but of God. Not of Blood, as in natural Generation, or not of the Blood of Abraham; Grace and Regeneration being not the Product of the State or Faith of believing Parents: This was the carnal Boast of the Jews, We have Abraham to our Father. Not of the Power of Man's Will, that cannot 3produce the New Creature in himself, nor in a Child or Brother: If it was in the Power of a godly Man or godly Minister to convert or to regenerate his Child, his Wife, or his Brother, would he let them perish? But alas, alas, this is out of Man's reach, out of his Power, he cannot renew himself: A Child may as easily beget it self in the Womb before it self was, as a Man can form Christ in his own Soul, or regenerate himself; 'tis God that doth it, the Holy Spirit begets us: Except a Man be born of Water and of the 4Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and every one that loveth him 5that begetteth, loveth him also that is begotten of him. Whosoever hath that efficacious Soul, uniting Soul, transforming Soul, renewing Sin killing Grace of Faith, is born of God. 'Tis not a bare believing Jesus is the Christ, no, but such a Faith that works by Love, or the Faith of God's Elect; For ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Jesus Christ. Faith, saving Faith, the Faith of the Operation 6of God, produceth this glorious Effect, through the Spirit, in the Soul. From all which Scriptures it evidently appears, that all Believers, all the Saints are the Children of God, begotten, and born of God.