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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.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great 1and precious Promises, that by these we might be partakers of the Divine Nature. Every Child of God is begotten by the Spirit through the Promise, as Isaac was: I will come, and Sarah shall have a Son. 2Compare this with that in 1 Pet. 1. 23. Being born again, not of corruptible Seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God that liveth and abideth for ever. Pray observe it, which liveth and abideth for ⟨p. 214⟩ever. Mortal Seed in Generation begetteth and bringeth forth a mortal Babe, a corruptible Child; but the Word and Spirit of God, begetteth and bringeth forth an immortal or an incorruptible Babe: Such is the Babe of Grace, or Child of God; I speak of the New Creature, or the regenerated Part in Man.
From hence let me draw this Argument, viz.
Arg. 1. That which is begotten and born of, and is brought forth by the Spirit of God, or of immortal and incorruptible Seed, is an immortal or incorruptible Babe: But the New Creature in the Soul of the Regenerate, is begotten and born of, or brought forth by the Spirit of God; therefore the New Creature in the Soul of the Regenerate is an immortal or an incorruptible Babe.