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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.
7. The Seducer and Heretical person likewise will be filled and tormented with shame, who preached false Doctrine, or sucked in detestable Errors, laying aside the chief Corner-stone, and magnifying Morality, or the Light of natural Conscience, above Christ: I seemed, saith he, to be a strict and zealous Person, and deceived multitudes of People, but for trusting in my own Righteousness, for hugging a few base filthy Rags I am damned: I was ignorant of Gods Righteousness, and of the Mysteries of the Gospel, yet gave out that none were true Christians but such as my self; I denied that Christ that bought me, and did not believe the Resurrection of my Body, but now I find how the Devil blinded my Eyes, and now here tormented with Shame I must lie in these flames, Body and Soul for ever! O! and what a multitude of poor deluded Creatures have I been an Instrument to bring into this place! Woe is me that ever I was born!
7. The Seducer and Heretical person likewise will be filled and tormented with shame, who preached false Doctrine, or sucked in detestable Errors, laying aside the chief Corner-stone, and magnifying Morality, or the Light of natural Conscience, above Christ: I seemed, saith he, to be a strict and zealous Person, and deceived multitudes of People, but for trusting in my own Righteousness, for hugging a few base filthy Raggs I am damned: I was ignorant of Gods Righteousness, and of the Mysteries of the Gospel, yet gave out that none were true Christians but such as my self; I denyed that Christ that bought me, and did not believe the Resurrection of my Body, but now I find how the Devil blinded my Eyes, and now here tormented with Shame I must lie in these flames, Body and Soul for ever! O! and what a multitude of poor deluded Creatures have I been an Instrument to bring into this place! Wo is me that ever I was born!
8. The Hypocritical Professor will be tormented with Shame also: I rested (he will say) upon a bare Name of being Religious, pleased my self with the Shell, with an empty Cabinet, without the Jewel, a Lamp of Profession, with a Form of Godliness, my Business was to keep up my Credit amongst Gods People, that they might take me to be one of them; yet my own Conscience often told me I was not sincere, I loved not the Life