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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.
3. He cannot live in a Course of Sin, or make a Trade of Sins He cannot live in a custom of Sinning, because all evil Habits are broken by Divine Grace in him. That Man that lives in any way of Sin, the old Habit of Lying, Pride, Lusts, Drunkenness, Covetousness, or any other Sin being not broken, is not born of God; for it is impossible a Child of God should so sin, i. e. live in a course and practice of committing of known Sins, or in a constant and continual omission of known Duties: Though he may fall into gross Sins, as David and other Children of God did, yet they continue not in a Course of such Sins that once possibly they were overcome by; nay, be sure they set a greater Watch against such Sins, and hate them rather more than all other Sins, because thereby they greatly dishonoured God, and wounded their own Souls.
4. Therefore Sin is not his Way, or Walk; he doth not commit Sin, as to walk after it; he walks not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. He may step into the Way of Sin, but he 1soon steps out of it again, whereas others walk in that Way every Day; it is the high Way, the common Road of the Ungodly.
5. He doth not commit Sin with Liking, Allowance, and Love. Though the fleshly Part may like, love, and allow of it, yet he finds another Part in him that hates it: What I hate, that do I. And hence it is the Apostle saith, It is not I that doth it, but Sin ⟨p. 217⟩