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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.

[ Earlier:210–225 of 2,274

:210p. 54¶2

2. The Miseries of this present Life are abated, or mitigated with the mixture of some Sweet: None are so universally afflicted, so deplorable, but some thing remains to ease their sufferings and tormenting pains: Judgments are tempered with Mercies. No man (as one observes) is tortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends; besides, if the Malady be incurable and remediless, yet their grief is a little allayed by the Sympathy of Friends and Neighbours: But in Hell the damned are tortured and surrounded with pain and horror, and incompass'd with flames, without any mixture, nothing to refresh their distressed Souls and Bodies, no, not one drop of water to cool their Tongue. The rich Man desired but so much water that Lazarus could bring upon the tip of his finger, and it was denied him.¹

2. The Miseries of this present Life are abated, or mitigated with the mixture of some Sweet: None are so universally afflicted, so deplorable, but some thing remains to ease their sufferings and tormenting pains: Judgments are tempered with Mercys. No man (as one observes) is tortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends; besides, if the Malady be incurable and remediless, yet their grief is a little allayed by the Sympathy of Friends and Neighbours: But in Hell the damned are tortured and surrounded with pain and horror, and incompass'd with flames, without any mixture, nothing to refresh their distressed Souls and Bodies, no, not one drop of water to cool their Tongue. The rich Man desired but so much water that Lazarus could bring upon the tip of his finger, and it was denyed him.¹

1Luk. 16. 24.

:211p. 54–55

Fourthly, The State of the Damned is void of the least degree of Comfort, Ease and Refreshment: The same shall drink of ¹

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