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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.
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.
Now if it be immortal or incorruptible, it can never die, but liveth and abideth for ever; and this the Apostle shows and affirms: Therefore it is impossible such should fall away, or suffer a Spiritual Death here, or an Eternal Death in Hell hereafter.
Now if it be immortal or incorruptible, it can never die, but liveth and abideth for ever; and this the Apostle shews and affirms: Therefore it is impossible such should fall away, or suffer a Spiritual Death here, or an Eternal Death in Hell hereafter.
2dly, My second Argument from hence is this, Because the Child of a natural Parent cannot cease to be his Child whilst he liveth, or Life abideth in him; this every Man must grant: True, he may prove a Rebellious and a Disobedient Child, but still he is his Child, and the Man that begat him is his Father, that Relation cannot be lost; nay, and that Nature which the Child derived from his Father, continues, and must continue, he is of his Flesh and Blood still. Even so it is here, and impossible it is that it should be otherwise, that Man or Woman, whose Soul is begotten and born of God, cannot cease to be a Child of God, though he may prove disobedient to his Heavenly Father, and grieve and dishonour him, but yet nevertheless he is a Child of God still: and God who by his Spirit in a spiritual manner begot him, is his Father; and that blessed Relation continues; and that holy Nature or Seed of Grace which he derived from God, continues and must abide also in him, as long as that Life he hath in him, as a Child of God, doth remain; and that Life is, as I have proved by the former Argument, Eternal or Immortal.