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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.
You have in the Words, 1. The Property of Christ's Sheep. 2. Their Security, and happy State and Condition. 1. Their Character or Property, viz. They hear his Voice, and do follow him. 2. Their Security, and happy State and Condition. 1. He knows them, that is, he approves of them. ⟨p. 76⟩2. He gives to them Eternal Life. 3. They are in his Hand, and shall never perish.
Our Saviour in this Chapter calls himself the Shepherd of the Sheep, yea, the Good Shepherd, Ver. 11. I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd giveth his Life for the Sheep.
Now if it be demanded who are the Sheep of Christ? I answer, All that the Father hath given to him, and that believe in him.
Christ's Sheep may be considered as his two manner of ways.