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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.
1. Caution. Take heed you are not Chaff, or prove not chaff, when the Fanner comes to fan you. O see you are not loose, carnal and empty Professors; if you have only a form of Godliness, the Name of Christ only, or Lamps, and no more, sad will it be with you; if you are not solid, weighty and ponderous Christians, if you experience not the divine power of Godliness, the Sin-killing, the Soul-quickening, the Heart-transforming, and God-exalting power of Christs Spirit, you are undone.
1. Caution. Take heed you are not Chaff, or prove not chaff, when the Fanner comes to fan you. O see you are not loose, carnal and empty Professors; if you have only a form of Godliness, the Name of Christ only, or Lamps, and no more, sad will it be with you; if you are not solid, weighty and ponderous Christians, if you experience not the divine power of Godliness, the Sin-killing, the Soul-quickning, the Heart-transforming, and God-exalting power of Christs Spirit, you are undone.
Take a few Motives to stir you up to take heed.
1. The Fanner is coming with his fan in his hand: A Providence may be near, yea, such a providence and dispensation which you little think or dream of. I might have showed you that the whole Earth is but Christs common floor, and he is now about to fan this mighty floor; he hath many fans to do this. What are his fearful Judgments but as a fan in his hand, whether it be War, Pestilence, or Famine, or other strange Judgment, 'tis and will be but as a fan to purge the Earth, and consume the ungodly, or blow them away as Chaff.
1. The Fanner is coming with his fan in his hand: A Providence may be near, yea, such a providence and dispensation which you little think or dream of. I might have shewed you that the whole Earth is but Christs common floor, and he is now about to fan this mighty floor; he hath many fans to do this. What are his fearful Judgments but as a fan in his hand, whether it be War, Pestilence, or Famine, or other strange Judgment, 'tis and will be but as a fan to purge the Earth, and consume the ungodly, or blow them away as Chaff.