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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.
3dly, The Union between Christ and Believers, is set forth by the Union of a Tree and its Branches: Thou being a wild Olive-Tree, 1wert grafted in amongst them, and with them partakest of the Root and Fatness of the Olive-Tree. Now the Branches have a close and near Union with the Tree; and being grafted into it, partake of the Juice and Fatness of the Root, the Tree and Branches being nourished thereby: There is the same fructifying and fattening Virtue ⟨p. 226⟩in the one that is in the other, only with this difference, in the Root and Tree it is originally, in the Boughs or Branches by way of Communication. This is brought by the Holy Ghost to open the Union of Christ and his Saints, both he and they are partakers of the same Fruit-bearing Spirit; he that dwells in them, dwells in him also, only it is in him (as to them) originally, in them by communication from him. Take a Scion, a Plant, a Graft, fix it 2to the Tree with all the Art you can, and bind it on as close as possible, yet 'tis not united to the Tree, until the Sap that is in the Tree be communicated to it; which Communication states the Union: Even so and in like manner let a Man be bound to Jesus Christ by all Bonds of visible Profession imaginable; yet unless the Holy Spirit be in him to unite him to Christ, unless he hath that Divine Sap and Life communicated to him, he hath no real Union with him.
3dly, The Union between Christ and Believers, is set forth by the Union of a Tree and its Branches: Thou being a wild Olive-Tree, 1wert grafted in amongst them, and with them partakest of the Root and Fatness of the Olive-Tree. Now the Branches have a close and near Union with the Tree; and being grafted into it, partake of the Juice and Fatness of the Root, the Tree and Branches being nourished thereby: There is the same fructifying and fatning Virtue ⟨p. 226⟩in the one that is in the other, only with this difference, in the Root and Tree it is originally, in the Boughs or Branches by way of Communication. This is brought by the Holy Ghost to open the Union of Christ and his Saints, both he and they are partakers of the same Fruit-bearing Spirit; he that dwells in them, dwells in him also, only it is in him (as to them) originally, in them by communication from him. Take a Cyon, a Plant, a Graft, fix it