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A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

Name: A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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.

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed by the author, 1694

[11], 500, [7] p. : port. · 227k words · Wing K69 · ESTC R18541

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

A Trumpet blown in Zion, OR An Alarm in God's Holy Mountain: Cont… › MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purr…: MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and ga…A Trumpet blown in Zion, OR An Allarum in God's Holy Mountain: Cont… › MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly pur…: MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and ga…

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.

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:132p. 30

So it is here for want of Care, or through weakness or want of Knowledge in Christs Ministers and Servants, in discerning who are sincere Christians and who are not: Many unsound and Chaffy Professors are let into the Church or Churches of Jesus Christ, which is displeasing unto him, because they spoil the Beauty and Glory thereof, and cause many to reproach his faithful ones; as it also renders them in the sight of the Carnal World not to be the People which indeed they are.

:133p. 30¶3

3. The Husbandman therefore causes the Wheat in his Garner to be fanned again, to clear it of the Chaff that is got in amongst it; so Christ with the Fan of Persecution often times fans his, People to purge out the loose and profane from among them.

:134p. 30

Secondly, By the Garner is meant Heaven it self, into which ¹all the Elect shall be put at the last day, and into this Garner shall none come but pure Wheat: And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, ²or that maketh a Lye, but they which are written in the Lambs book of Life.

1Heaven is Christs Garner.
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