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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.
But all these things affirmed, are true, certainly true; therefore no true Believer can so sin and fall away as eternally to perish.
Brethren, I shall apply this, and pass to the sixth Argument.
APPLICATION.
Infer. 1. From hence we infer, that those Men who affirm that such who are the Children of God, begotten and born of the Spirit, may perish, are strangely beclouded; for they must suppose that a Child may utterly lose the Nature and Relation of a Child, and degenerate so far, as to become a Dog, a Swine, &c. which is impossible in Nature, and much more in Grace: for as none but the Almighty Power of the Infinite God could change the Soul; so it is impossible for any Diabolical Power to turn or change that Holy Nature again; and that not only because the Divine Nature and Image of God is such in self, but also by reason of the Design and Purpose of God, in and by Jesus Christ in our Restoration, that being such, that it cannot be lost any more without the highest dishonour to God, and a frustration of his Eternal Purpose and Counsel, which was to destroy the Works of the Devil. If any should object, that Adam had the Image of God in him before he fell, and lost it. I answer, He was the Son of God by Creation only, not by Grace; he was not begotten by the Holy Spirit, nor did he stand as we do, in Christ.