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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.
MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather the Wheat into his Garner, but the Chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
1Our Text is Metaphorical, and as touching the main Scope and Coherence of it, it is one and the same with the 10th. verse of this Chapter, which I have already spoken unto, and lately published the Sermons unto the World.
1OUr Text is Metaphorical, and as touching the main Scope and Coherence of it, it is one and the same with the 10th. verse of this Chapter, which I have already spoken unto, and lately published the Sermons unto the World.
- 1Sermon 1. Preached Feb. 5. 1693.Sermon 1. Preacht Feb. 5. 1693.
John the Baptist endeavoureth to take off the Jews from their pretended Privileges, of having Abraham to their Father, or their being his natural Seed, or Offspring; and as so ⟨p. 2⟩considered in Covenant with God, and thought their State and Condition good: Which he strove to convince them was a mistake, and this he doth by that Tropical Expression in ver. 10. Now also is the Axe laid to the root of the Trees. And in this 12th. verse, Whose Fan is in his hand, &c. As if he should say, You shall ere long see your selves deceived, for all your great confidence in the flesh, touching your external, federal, relative holiness, and legal privileges: For Christ with his Axe will now quickly cut you down: And with his Fan, fan you away as Chaff, if you have no better right to Church-membership on Earth, and to the glory in Heaven, than that which is derived to you from the account whereof you boast, viz. Having Abraham to your Father. So much only shall now serve as to the Scope and Coherence of the Words. 1. I shall proceed to give you the parts of the Text. 2. Open the Terms thereof. 3. Note two or three points of Doctrine therefrom. 4. Apply the whole.