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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.
They hear what Christ hath said, they hear Christ's Voice, i. e. the Doctrine he taught; This is my beloved Son (saith the Father) in whom I am well pleased, hear him.
1. Not Moses; Moses is not our Shepherd, our Guide, our Lawgiver: We are not his Disciples, his Sheep; No, no, but we are Christ's Sheep, Christ's Disciples: The Jews said, they were Moses 's Disciples.
2. They hear Christ's Voice, not the Pope's, not the Voice of Antichrist.
3. They hear Christ's Voice; not the Voice of the Light of Nature only, or the teaching of Natural Conscience: though, 'tis true, they hear and follow that Light, yet they know the Light that is in all Men, which is in Pagans, Turks and Heathens, is not the Voice of Christ as he is Mediator, and the great Shepherd of the Sheep.
4. They hear Christ's Voice, follow his Voice, not the Voice of General Councils and National Synods; they will no further hear any, than they hear and adhere to the Voice and Doctrine of Jesus Christ.
2dly, They will not receive or embrace any Capital Errors; they will not hear the Voice of Strangers, but keep to all the Essentials of Christ's Doctrine of the Principles of true Religion.
Particularly,
1. They believe the Holy Scripture is of Divine Authority, and that it is the only Rule of Faith and Practice.
2. They steadfastly believe the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, that there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Son, 1and the Holy Spirit; and that these three are one; One in Essence, yet three Persons or Subsistences.
2. They stedfastly believe the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, that there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Son, 1and the Holy Spirit; and that these three are one; One in Essence, yet three Persons or Subsistences.
3. They steadfastly believe the Doctrine of Christ's Divinity, or have a right Faith about the Person of Christ, not doubting but that he is God by Nature, the most High God, coeternal and coequal with the Father and the Holy Ghost; abominating the Doctrine of Arius, who asserted he was not of the same Substance of the Father, but rather a created Spirit, the first and chief Spirit or Angel God created.
3. They stedfastly believe the Doctrine of Christ's Divinity, or have a right Faith about the Person of Christ, not doubting but that he is God by Nature, the most High God, coeternal and coequal with the Father and the Holy Ghost; abominating the Doctrine of Arius, who asserted he was not of the same Substance of the Father, but rather a created Spirit, the first and chief Spirit or Angel God created.
And the Doctrine of Socinians, who affirmed, He is a mere Man, and had no Pre-existence before he was Conceived and Born of the Virgin.
And the Doctrine of Socinians, who affirmed, He is a meer Man, and had no Pre-existence before he was Conceived and Born of the Virgin.
They abominate that Voice or Doctrine of Eutychians, who maintain, that the Matter of Christ's Flesh was from Heaven, or that it was a Conversion of the Deity of the second Person of the Trinity into Flesh, and that he partook not of the Nature of the Virgin.
They abominate their Doctrine, who declare, that Christ doth consist of one Nature only; and those who affirm that the Light that is in all Men (which is but an inward Quality created of God, ⟨p. 86⟩with which the Soul of Mankind is naturally endued) is the only Christ of God; they know these are Strangers, and the Voice of Strangers they will not hear.
They abominate their Doctrine, who declare, that Christ doth consist of one Nature only; and those who affirm that the Light that is in all Men (which is but an inward Quality created of God, ⟨p. 86⟩with which the Soul of Mankind is naturally indued) is the only Christ of God; they know these are Strangers, and the Voice of Strangers they will not hear.
4. They hear and steadfastly believe, and receive the Doctrine of Christ's Headship over the Church.
4. They hear and stedfastly believe, and receive the Doctrine of Christ's Headship over the Church.
5. The Doctrine of Satisfaction by Christ, in his Expiation of Sin, and of Justification by his Righteousness imputed, as it is received by Faith alone, without inherent Righteousness wrought in us, or good Works done by us.
6. The Doctrine of Regeneration, the Resurrection of the Body, and of the Eternal Judgment, and World to come.
