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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.
6. And lastly, Chaff I told you was Light, and every breath of wind will move it, this way, and that way, and if it rises high it will may be blow it quite away, there being no Kernel in it, whereas the Wheat abides.
So Chaffy and vain Professors are startled at every small blast of Persecution, and presently begin to move out of their place, and shun assembling themselves with Gods People: Nay, every wind of corrupt Doctrine is ready to blow some of this sort a way; they are unsettled Persons, they want weight, or ⟨p. 26⟩are not rooted in the Truth, wanting a good Understanding, and a Principle of saving Grace in their Hearts; Be not carried away with divers and strange Doctrines, for it is good to have the heart established with Grace, and not with Meats.1
This sort are soon corrupted from the Simplicity of the Gospel, by the Cunning Craftiness of Men, being ready to receive any strange Notion, or close in with a New Scheme of Religion, some turning to Judaism, and add Moses to Christ, or join to the Gospel their own Works; they are commonly corrupt, either in Principles or Practices, or in both, making a stir about the Mint, Anise and Cummin, i. e. about the smaller matters of Religion, as concerning Meats and Observation of Days, as if in such things lay the great stress of Christianity; how many are there who like those false Teachers, and deluded People in the Primitive Times, plead for Justification some other way than by Faith only, and bring in their own inherent Holiness and sincere Obedience, and add that to the Merits of Christ, in point of Justification before God; or exalt the Power and Will of the Creature, to the Eclipsing the Doctrine of Free-Grace. Sirs, tho' I will not deny but many sincere Christians may be shaken by the wind of false and corrupt Doctrine, or drawn away through the subtlety of men, yet no doubt chiefly they are the Light, Formal and Chaffy Professors which are carried away, and Tossed too and fro with every wind of Doctrine, and this because of the want of Grace, a sound Judgment and a good Understanding in the Mysteries of the Gospel. A good understanding (saith David) have all they that do his Commandments.