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.

JOHN X. 28. And I give unto them Eternal Life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my Hand.

BELOVED, the last Day I was upon that Grand Argument, to prove, That none of Christ's Sheep can fall away, so as eternally to perish, (viz.) taken from the Death of Christ.

I shewed you that Christ died in their stead; he bore all that Vindictive Wrath that was due to them for their Sins, so that they might never bear it, or suffer in Hell.

I shall now proceed.

Eighthly, My next Argument shall be taken from the Effects of Christ's Death and Resurrection. Though I have spoken some∣thing already touching the Effects of the Death of Christ, yet I shall, before I pass it, add something further to it.

First, We have shewed you, that the appeasing of God's Wrath was the Effects of the Death of Christ; he put an end to all Vin∣dictive Wrath and Vengeance that was due to all Believers or Elect Ones: The Pangs of Hell due to us, seized upon him, and he bore it in our stead upon the Cross: He was delivered for our Offence, and rose again for our Justification. Now when Christ was discharged, all his Elect were virtually discharged also, because he suffered and rose again as a publick Person, representing all that were given to him by the Father: those things which he did in his own Per∣son in this respect, we are said to do together with him. Brethren, the benefit of his Performances doth redound unto us; we are said to die with him, and to be quickned together with him, and entred into the Holy Place with him; the whole Victory over Sin and Death being obtained, and the Quarrel removed; the condemning Power of Sin being destroyed: all things about making an end of Sin are done and passed through. Now what saith the Apostle, He that is dead, hath ceased from Sin. Well, what of this? Likewise, saith he, Reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto Sin; but

alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Knowing that Christ be∣ing raised from the Dead, dieth no more; Death hath no more Power over him. Now this being done by us, and for us in our Head, can we henceforth die any more? Shall Eternal Death have Dominion over us? No, no, we are to reckon our selves to be as absolutely freed and discharged from Sin and Eternal Death, as Christ is discharged and freed from Death, and dieth no more: And this comes to us as the Effects of his Death, by his suffering for us, and in our room. If one died for all, then were all dead, (that is, all those for whom he died) they were dead, and died likewise with him their Sponsor, and are delivered from the Curse due for Sin; so that we now might and shall live to him that died for us, and rose again. This was the End of his Death, and is or will be the Effect thereof on all for whom he died.

Secondly, Reconciliation, from hence it doth appear is also another Effect of Christ's Death. The Design of God was to bring us to Happiness; and this he doth as the Effects of the Death of his own Son the Lord Jesus, who hath made our Peace by the Blood of his Cross. He hath reconciled both Jews and Gentiles to God in one Body, having slain the Enmity thereby. Divine Justice, you heard the last Day, has nothing to charge upon God's Elect, because it is Christ that died.

1. Observe; Christ's Death hath reconciled God to us: When we were Enemies, we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son.

2. And then also, as an Effect and Fruit of his Death, he having obtained the Spirit for us, we are actually reconciled to God: And thus our Days-man lays his Hands upon both; he brings God to us, and us to God; he is not the Mediator of one, but God is one: There is one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus.

3. Therefore as the Effects of Christ's Death and Resurrection, Reconciliation is made with God for us, and that for ever: it is not a Peace made for such a time, or for so long, but for ever, so that there shall never be any destructive Breach any more, no more War between God and Believers; let Sin and Satan do what they can, they cannot break this League of Peace and Amity. 'Tis not a Peace upon Condition that we are to keep, and may break it; No, no, the Peace was made by Christ, and he that made it, maintains it, as he sits upon the Throne: He it was that made it as he is a Priest, and he maintains it as he is a King upon the Throne;

he will never suffer Sin to get such Head in us, that we shall cast off God any more, or violate our Covenant with him, nor will he suffer Satan to do it; therefore they who are reconciled, shall ne∣ver perish, no not one of the Elect of God.

Thirdly, The Gift of the Holy Spirit is another Effect of the Death of Christ: This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are Witnesses. And having received of the Father the Promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. The Father pro∣mised unto his Son upon his dying for us, that the Holy Spirit should be given to all his Seed: I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed. Indeed, Christ receiving the Holy Spirit without measure for us, in his own Person as Mediator, antecedent to our believing, is the fullest Security to us imaginable: We are blessed with all spiritual Blessings in Christ, that is, in him as our Head. And although Christ received the Spirit before he suffered, yet it was upon the account of his Sufferings; the Father trusted his Son, took his Son's Word, and gave him part of his Wages from the beginuing: for all the Saints under the Old Testament, had the Spirit upon no other Account than as we have it, namely, as the Fruits and Ef∣fects of Christ's Death and Purchase who was to die.

Now, Brethren, pray consider what the Work of the Holy Spirit is, which is promised to abide with the Saints and Seed of Christ for ever.

1. His Work is at first to quicken them: You hath he quickned.

2. To renew, to regenerate, to sanctify them; this is the Work and Office of the Spirit: I will sprinkle clean Water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your Filthiness. And hence the Gentiles are said to be sanctified by the Holy Ghost. But pray take notice of this, the Rock in the Wilderness was first smitten before Water gush'd forth. So Christ was first smitten, first crucified, then the Spirit like Water was poured forth: It is, Sirs, wholly the Effects and Fruits of his Death.

3. It is the Work of the Spirit to cause us to walk in God's Ways, and to keep his Statutes: I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my Statutes, and ye shall keep my Judgments, and do them. We should not do this were it not for the Spirit; we could not keep God's Precepts, nor walk in his Paths, but God puts his Spirit into us that we shall not depart from him; that is, we shall not finally apostatize from him, but shall keep his Precepts to the End.

4. It is the Work of the Spirit to help us to pray, and breathe forth our Desires to God: We know not how to pray, but as the Spirit helps our Infirmities, and maketh intercession for us with Groans that cannot be uttered. Christ having redeemed us from the Curse of the Law, it is, that this Blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles: And because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

5. The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit, is to enable us to mortify Sin: Rom. 8. 13. If ye through the Spirit mortify the Deeds of the Body, ye shall live. And hence it is also that Sin shall not have Dominion over them; and therefore Believers cannot perish, they having such a Helper: He destroys all that Dominion Sin and Satan had in them, and Power over them: The Spirit utterly spoils Satan's Kingdom in them, Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the World, saith John, speaking to the Saints. This is such a Helper that can never be worsted.

6. It is hereby we perform all our Holy Duties: By the Spirit Mi∣nisters preach to profit, and Hearers hear to their profit; hereby we read to profit, and sing God's Praise to our profit and sweet com∣fort: for as we pray with the Spirit, so we sing with the Spirit; and the same Measure, the same Fillings of the Spirit that enable us to do the one, enable us to do the other. By the Spirit we are also helped to meditate on God, and on his Word; and hereby our Meditations of him are sweet to our Souls.

7. 'Tis by the Spirit we resist and repel Satan's Temptations: Or if he doth at any time worst us, the Spirit will help us up a∣gain.

8. It is the Holy Spirit that doth confirm and establish us in the Truth.

9. In a word, All Grace is from the Spirit; and it is by the Aid and Assistance of the Spirit, that we are enabled to exercise that Grace: for as he first formed the Habit in our Souls, so it is he helps us to do the Act also, or that doth influence us in the Exer∣cise thereof.

10. The Holy Spirit is also the Earnest of the Saints Inheritance: 'Tis given to them as an Earnest of that Glory they shall one Day absolutely be possessed of: 'Tis given to assure them, that as cer∣tainly as they have received the Holy Spirit here, and he is in them, so certain it is that they shall be saved, or have the Eternal Inheri∣tance. True, I have mentioned this two or three times already, yet it is of so great Importance, I cannot pass it by here: It is

no small Matter that God gives us, when he gives the Holy Spirit to us; for as he is that Principle of Life in us, so he gives us a full Assurance of Eternal Life hereafter: and it is upon this Earnest-Money a Saint may be said to live, whilst in this World; nay, and it will defray all his Charge, and supply all his Need and manifold Wants, as long as he lives upon the Earth, even until he comes to the full possession of his Inheritance above.

11. And as the Spirit is the Earnest of Glory, or of Everlast∣ing Life, so he is also the Witness of God in our Souls; yea, such a Witness, whose Testimony every Christian may trust to, and rest upon: The Spirit it self beareth witness with our Spirit, that we are the Children of God. It witnesseth to us our Adoption, that we are Children, and so Heirs, Heirs of God, and joint Heirs with Christ. There is a twofold Witness of the Spirit.

• (1.) The Spirit witnesseth by a direct Act, we taking hold of Christ, and of the Promise: Saith the Spirit to the Soul, I testify that Christ and Eternal Life is yours; you believe, and therefore you have Christ, and shall be saved.
• (2.) There is the witnessing of the Spirit by a reflex Act: A Man finds such and such gracious Effects of Divine Grace upon his Soul, and by these the Holy Spirit testifies he is gracious. One that loves God, that hates Sin, is changed, renewed, lives a godly Life; therefore is in Christ Jesus, and shall be saved.

12. It is also by the Holy Spirit that Believers are sealed unto the Day of Redemption. Also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise. Strange! Can these fall away? Can such perish that have received the Earnest of Heaven, and have the Witness of the Spirit, and have it sealed to them? No, no, God hath put his Seal, or Mark, upon them; he by his Seal hath secured them to and for himself: and all this is the Effects of Christ's Death and Resurrection.

13. The Spirit also thus purchased by Christ's Death, and given as the Fruits and Effects thereof to Believers, the Promise of the Father is, that it shall abide with them for ever; it is the great Promise made to Christ in the Covenant; My Spirit which is upon thee—shall not depart from thee, nor from thy Seed, henceforth and for ever: See the Words, Isa. 59. 21. there is the Promise of the Father; it is an absolute Promise, and it runs thus, it shall be in Christ and in his Seed, henceforth and for ever. The Spirit is called the Promise of the Father. Also we have a Promise of the constant abiding of the Spirit in all Believers, made by Christ, the second

Person in the Trinity; he told his Disciples, The Spirit of Truth, the Comforter should abide with them, and be in them forever. Unto these, add the Testimony of the Holy Ghost himself; for it is he that doth in the Word assure us of his own abiding with us; he hath chosen our Souls to be his own Temple and Habitation for ever; and also assures us, That all the Promises are in Christ, yea and amen, to the Glory of God. So that we have this great Truth sealed and confirmed to us by the Three that bear witness in Hea∣ven.

Fourthly, Pardon of Sin is another Effect and Fruit of the Death of Christ, In whom we have Redemption through his Blood, that is, as the Effects of his Blood, even the Forgiveness of Sin. True, Jesus Christ satisfied God's Justice for our Sins, he paid our Debts, it is not Remission without a Satisfaction, but yet we are freely for∣given; we have it of God's Free Grace, but it is through the Blood of Christ; Remission of our Sins follows Redemption, as the neces∣sary Effects thereof. Christ hath procured this Favour and Blessing for us, and Gospel-Remission or Pardon of Sin is for ever: I will remember their Sins no more, they are blotted out for ever; he hath cast our Sins into the Depth of the Sea, put them behind his Back; yea, he hath put them far away from him, as the East is from the West.

Fifthly, Adoption is the Fruit and Effect of Christ's Death; He hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law, that we might re∣ceive the Adoption of Sons. God takes us through Christ, or by virtue of Christ's Death, into the Relation of Sons; which Privilege we have for ever, we shall never cease being Sons and Daughters of God.

Sixthly, Free Access to the Throne of Grace, or unto the Fa∣ther, is the Effect of Christ's Death: Having therefore, Brethren, boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living Way, which he hath consecrated for us through the Vail, that is to say, his Flesh, Christ's Blood: His Death opened this Way, it is by him we have access to the Throne of Grace.

Seventhly, Another Fruit and Effect of the Death of Christ, is, Redemption from all Iniquity: He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, &c. Tit. 2. 14. Therefore this Glorious Effect his Death shall have upon all Redeemed Ones; it

was not to redeem only from the Curse of the Law, as some talk, but from the Guilt, Pollution, Power and Punishment of Sin; therefore Believers shall never perish.

Eighthly, Justification is also another Effect of the Death and Resurrection of Christ; which is to acquit, absolve, and to pro∣nounce us Righteous in God's Sight; God accepting us Righteous by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness which is ever the same. Now Christ's Death being the Meritorious Cause thereof, we are said to be justified by his Blood, Rom. 5. 9. And pray see the Apostle's Argument from hence; Much more then being now justifi∣ed by his Blood, we shall be saved from Wrath through him: It is more to be reconciled and justified, than it is to be saved; such are justified, and Christ's Blood having done the former, will much more effect the latter: those that Christ justifies, he will glorify; nay, and his Death and Resurrection cannot be without this Effect: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, &c. The Word Justified is opposed to Condemnation; those that are justified, are justified for ever. Justification is not a gradual Act, as Sancti∣fication is; it results not as the Fruits of our Repentance, or in∣herent Holiness, but as the Fruits of Christ's Death and Merits; it is never less nor more: as our Holiness cannot add any thing to it, so the Sins and Infirmities of true Believers, cannot diminish any thing from it; there may be additions to our inherent Sancti∣fication, but not to our Justification: Christ rose again for our Ju∣stification. I may also challenge all the Men in the World to prove, that any Man that was justified in the sight of God, did ever fall away and come under Condemnation.

Ninthly, Sanctification is another Effect of the Death of Christ: You may again read that Text, Heb. 9. 13, 14. Christ died not only to justify Believers, but to sanctify them also.

Object. But some may say, A Man may be sanctified, and yet be defiled again: We read of some that escaped the Pollution of the World through the Knowledg of Christ, yet were again entangled and over∣come.

Answ. 1. If any sincere Christian be defiled again, through any Sin or Corruption, they shall be washed and cleansed again.

2. Those that Peter speaks of, were such that only had escaped gross Pollution through the common Operations of the Spirit; it appears, their swinish Nature was never changed: he therefore

saith, It is happened to them according to the true Proverb, The Dog it turned to his Vomit again, and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the Mire. Such therefore never were sanctified in Heart, they never experienced the Effects of Christ's Blood, not that Soul-puri∣fying Virtue that is in it; they were cleansed from gross Idolatry, through the Knowledg of Christ, and also from some gross Acts of Prophaneness; they had obtained a reformed, but no renewed Life of Grace and Holiness; therefore such fall into Sin again, and are so overcome, that the latter End is worse with them than the Beginning. As to true Believers, see what the Apostle says; For by one Offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. By this one Offering our Lord Jesus hath procured our Sanctification perpetually to be continued; the Death of Christ hath special influence unto the mortification of Sin: in the Death of the Cross, Our Old Man is crucified, that the Body of Sin might be destroyed: Sin is mortified, and we are sanctified by virtue of the Death of Christ; and we hereby through his Grace come to be planted into the Likeness of his Death. And as Paul in another place saith, Being made conformable unto his Death: This Conformity is not in our Natural Death, or in our being put to death for him; but Christ dying for our Sins is the procuring Cause of our dying to Sin: therefore we must look for the Death of our Sins in the Death of Christ, as the proper Effect thereof. Virtue goeth from the Death of Christ, to the subduing and de∣stroying of Sin; his Death was not only a Passive Example, but is accompanied with Power, conforming and changing us into his Likeness: 'Tis the great Ordinance of God to this very End, it is by a fellowship or participation in his suffering; we are never made conformable to the Death of Christ, till we die to Sin: the Death of Christ was designed to be the Death of Sin. And as certain as Christ died for the Sins of all the Elect, so certain it is they shall all, first or last, feel the powerful Effects thereof in the Death of their Sins. The Corn fell into the Ground and died, and shall produce all the Increase that virtually was hid in it: Christ is our Life, the Spring, Fountain and Cause of it; therefore we have nothing but what we derive from him.

Object. He is, say some, the Author of Life; and as he taught the Way of Life, so he is our Life.

Answ. He is our Life as he is our Head; and it would be but a sorry Head that should only teach the Feet to go, or the Mem∣bers to act and move, without communicating Strength unto

them, and to the whole Body. Christ, Brethren, is an Head of Influence; and in these spiritual Influences, or Life, that Strength which he communicates to us, doth consist in the killing of Sin: He loved his Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having Spot or Wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be Holy and without Blame. And if this was his End in his Death, be sure his Death shall perfectly effect this glorious Work in the End upon every Soul of his.

Tenthly, and lastly, Glorification is also an Effect of the Death of Christ; it is the Fruit of his Suffering, it was by his own Blood he entred as our Head and Representative once into the Holy Place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us. The Crown of Glory is the Purchase of his Blood: and as sure as his Righteous∣ness, his Holy Life and Obedience, and Meritorious Death carried him to the Father, and set him down at the right Hand of the Majesty on high; so will his Merits as certainly bring all the true Heirs to that Glory above, where the Fore-runner is for us already entered: For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many Sons to Glory, to make the Captain of their Salvation perfect through Sufferings. First he brings those Sons into a State of Grace, as the Effects of his Death and Resurrection, and unto a State of Glory: And whom he justified, them also he glorified.

I shall draw up the Sum of this Argument: If such are the cer∣tain Fruits and Effects of Christ's Death; (1.) If it hath appeased the Wrath of God for all that are in him: (2.) If it hath made their Peace, and for ever reconciled them unto God: (3.) If the Holy Spirit is purchased, and procured as the Effects of his Death for them, by which they are renewed, quickned and helped to mortify Sin; and is to them an Earnest, a Witness, and Seal of Ever∣lasting Life, and shall abide with them for ever: (4.) If Justification is the Effect of Christ's Death, and they are for ever acquitted from all Sin, and accepted as Righteous in Christ's Righteousness: (5.) If all that believe in him are sanctified, as the Effects of his Death, and shall be perfected for ever: (6.) If Pardon of Sin is an Effect also of Christ's Death, and all Believers have and shall have their Sins forgiven for ever, or remembred no more: (7.) If they are adopted Sons and Daughters to God, as the Effect of

Christ's Death: (8.) And also if Glorification is an Effect of his Death; and as certain as is the Cause, the Effect will be; or as sure as Christ is glorified in Heaven, all that are his Members shall be glorified. Then it is impossible that any one of them should so fall away as eternally to perish: But all these things are true, and none dare to deny them so to be, therefore they cannot fall, so as eternally to perish.

I shall apply this, and come to the next Argument.

APPLICATION.

First, To Sinners.

1. Hath the Death of Christ such Virtue in it, even to renew, quicken, regenerate all that believe in him? Is God through the Death of his Son reconciled, and shall all that take hold of him be justified? &c. O then, Sinners, look up unto him and never cease looking, until you find the Effects of his Death in your own Souls.

Object. 1. But alas, Sir, I am a vile and abominable Sinner.

Answ. Well, notwithstanding that, yet there is Virtue enough in Christ to save you.

Object. 2. But I have been a Drunkard, a Swearer, an Adulterer, a Thief.

Answ. So had some of those Paul speaks of, 1 Cor. 6. 11. Such were some of you, but you are sanctified, but you are justified.

Object. 3. But I have been an Old Sinner.

Answ. Well, let it be so, yet but a Sinner, and Christ died for Sinners, for the chief of Sinners, therefore there is hope for you; nay, if you can believe, and apply the Virtue of Christ's Blood, you shall find Mercy.

Object. 4. But I fear Christ did not die for me.

Answ. 1. If he died for the Chief of Sinners, why not for thee? And if those that crucified him found Mercy, why not thee?

2. Thou hast as much ground to believe that Christ died for thee, as any ungodly Person hath that dwells on the Face of the whole Earth. Sinner, look up. Nay,

3. Thou hast as much ground to believe that Christ died for thee, as any of those had once who now feel the Effects of his Death.

4. Did ever any Sinner throw himself at his Feet as a poor lost and undone Creature, and take hold of him, that was rejected?

Query. What is the first Effect of Christ's Death?

Answ. The first Effect of Christ's Death in the Soul, is Life; Life is infused: And if thou hast a vital Principle in thee, thou wilt cry out under the Sense of thy Sin. Thrust a Sword into a dead Man's Bowels, and he will not stir nor cry out. Sin is in wicked Men, like a Sword in the Sides of such as are dead; but as soon as Life is infused, there will be Sense, and a crying out. Now when they heard this they were pricked in the Heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles, What shall we do? Some of these had been the Murderers of the Lord of Life and Glory, yet they found Mercy.

2dly. Another Effect is this, viz. You will perceive a mighty Fa∣mine in your Soul, as it was with the Prodigal Son; all your old Hopes of Heaven will be gone, Poverty of Spirit will overtake you: An awakned wounded Sinner despairs of all Supplies or Help in himself; he is distressed with pinching Hunger, and so flies home to his Father: (1.) Yet may not get Power over Sin presently. (2.) But O he trembles at the Thoughts of God's Ju∣stice, by beholding the Spear in Christ's Side. (3.) He throws down his Weapons as being conquered and overcome, and re∣solves to do as the four Lepers did, 2 Kings 7. 3, 4, 8, 9. (4.) He sees nothing but Death if he abides where he is, and believes not: And if he returns to his old Course, he sees he must die; and therefore ventures to throw his Soul upon Christ, or ventures him∣self on Christ, and lies at the Feet of Christ, and says, If I perish, I perish, I can but die; and if he will pardon me, heal me, and have compassion on me, I shall live. O Sinners, that you could but do thus.

Secondly, We may infer from hence, that it is in vain for any Person to talk of Christ's Death, or to say Christ died for Sinners, nay, for the whole World, and therefore for me, unless they come to feel the Virtue and blessed Effects of his Death on their own Souls. O see you rest not, without finding the Power of the Death of Christ. Sirs, though the Sacrifice is over, yet the Vir∣tue and excellent Causality of it remains; and not only to justify and absolve a believing Sinner, but also to quicken, regenerate, and to sanctify and make him Holy also. Therefore labour to know and experience the Power of Christ's Death.

Thirdly, From hence also we may infer, that this is the only Way to know Christ died for us; namely, when we find the Ef∣fects of his Death, that we die to Sin, that the Body of Sin is cruci∣fied in us with him. Hath the Life of your Sins been let out? O see to this you that prosess the Gospel.

Fourthly, This shews us also what a dangerous thing it is for any to build their Faith upon the general Love of God to Mankind. What say some? I believe Christ died for me, because he died for all; and because for all, therefore for me. Brethren, I am a∣fraid this is the ruin of many Souls, because it may be but a false Faith that those poor Creatures have, they may not expe∣rience the Effects of Christ's Death; may be it is not prest upon their Consciences, but this of Christ dying for all, they think is enough. Now pray consider, and O that all such mistaken Per∣sons would consider it also;

1. That a general Faith, viz. to believe that Christ died for all, gives no Man any particular saving Interest in Christ's Death: for if it did, then every Man that so believeth, hath a saving In∣terest in his Death. But thousands perhaps so believe, and yet are as vile and ungodly People as any in the World: Therefore to build on that general Faith, without a particular Application of the Promise, or Promises of God, and experiencing the Effects of Christ's Death, is a false Faith, and deceives the Soul.

2. That that Faith which a Man may have, that may leave such that have it and trust in it, under the Power of Sin, is a false Faith, and will deceive the Soul: but Men may have that Faith, namely, believe Christ died for all, and therefore for them, and yet be under the Power of Sin; therefore that may be a false Faith.

3. That Faith that doth not change the Heart, purify the Heart, is a false Faith: But many that believe Christ died for all, and therefore for them, have that Faith, and yet it doth not change their Hearts, purify their Hearts; therefore it is a false Faith.

4. From hence I argue, that it follows undeniably, that all those People that believe Christ died for all, must come to a particular Application of Christ's Blood, and not trust to that general Ap∣plication; they must feel the Effects of Christ's Death upon their own Souls, or else they are undone: nor do I doubt in the least but many of them of that Judgment do so, divers of them be∣ing as gracious Christians as any others; and have Experiences that clearly contradict their own Principles.

Fifthly, and Lastly, Here is Comfort for Believers. O see what the Death of Christ hath and will effect for you, and in you. 1. God's Wrath is appeased in him towards you. 2. Justice is sa∣tisfied in him towards you. 3. The Law is silenced. 4. Peace and Pardon procured. 5. Life is infused. 6. The Guilt, Power, Pollution and Punishment of Sin, removed and gone for ever. 7. You are justified. 8. Satan is conquered. 9. The World is overcome, you are and shall be sanctified, and Heaven is opened; you are in Christ's Hand, and shall not perish, but have Everlast∣ing Life.

Notes

• Sermon XIII.
• The Eighth Argument taken from the Effects of Christ's Death and Resurrecti∣on.
• Rom. 6. 5, 6. Col. 2. 12, 13.
• 1 Pet. 4. 1.
• Rom. 6. 10, 11.
• 1 Cor. 5. 15.
• Reconcilia∣tion the Ef∣fect of Christ's Death. Eph. 2. 16.
• Rom. 8. 34.
• Rom. 5. 10.
• 1 Tim. 2. 5.
• Zech. 6. 13.
• Acts 2. 32, 33.
• Isa. 44. 3.
• Ezek. 36. 25. Rom. 15. 16. 2 Thess. 2. 13.
• Ezek. 36. 27.
• Rom. 8. 26.
• Gal. 4. 5, 6.
• 1 Joh. 4. 4.
• Eph. 1. 13.
• Rom. 8. 16.
• Eph. 1. 14. & 4. 30.
• John 14.
• Col. 1. 14.
• Gal. 4. 5.
• Heb. 10. 19, 20. Reader, these things were en∣larged upon when this Sermon was preached, which I am forc'd to leave out here.
• Acts 13. 39.
• 2 Pet. 2. 20.
• Ver. 22.
• Heb. 10. 14.
• Rom. 6. 5.
• Phil. 3. 10, 11, 12.
• Eph. 5. 25, 26, 27.
• Heb. 9. 12.
• Rom. 8. 30.
• The general Argument.
• Acts 2. 37.