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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.
4. A consuming Fire destroys, wastes and devours exceedingly, as Sodom found, and London also by woeful experience. So God when he breaks forth in his Wrath and Fury, he makes ⟨p. 32⟩most lamentable desolation, The Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. The Wrath of God is 1compared to a consuming fire: For our God is a consuming Fire.2
4. A consuming Fire destroys, wasts and devours exceedingly, as Sodom found, and London also by woful experience. So God when he breaks forth in his Wrath and Fury, he makes ⟨p. 32⟩most lamentable desolation, The Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. The Wrath of God is 1compared to a consuming fire: For our God is a consuming Fire.2
- 1Psa. 21. 9. 10.
- 2Heb. 12. ult.
5. A Consuming and raging fire spares none, the Palace of the Prince no more than the Cottage of the Peasant, the mighty Oaks as well as the lowest Shrubs are devoured by it; so the wrath of God seizeth, and will seize on all wicked men, on the mighty and honourable of the Earth, as well as the poor and contemptible ones; the King on his Throne, as well as the Beggar on the Dunghill: His wrath shall be on every one that is lofty, and upon every one that is proud and lifted up, and